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The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software

Posted by Soulskill on from the fighting-fragmentation-at-all-costs dept.

New submitter tian2992 writes "The new terms for the Android SDK now include phrases such as 'you may not: (a) copy (except for backup purposes), modify, adapt, redistribute, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works of the SDK or any part of the SDK' among other non-Free-software-friendly terms, as noted by FSF Europe's Torsten Grote. Replicant, a free fork of Android, announced the release of Replicant SDK 4.0 based on the latest sources of the Android SDK without the new terms."

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  1. Second Post by polyp2000 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wheres the first?

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  2. Re:But Android is open by polyp2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    About as much as Verity Treacle ?

    http://www.muuta.net/KennyEverett/Img/BBC-S05E03.jpg

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