The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software 535
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."
Re:come on! (Score:5, Funny)
The church was ok, it didn't kill as many as ...
Oh fuck.
Re:I am a reverse-engineer (Score:2, Funny)
Re:come on! (Score:5, Funny)
OH fuck was ok, it didn't kill as many as "Hey guys! Watch this!"
Re:I am a reverse-engineer (Score:2, Funny)
On second thought, forget the SDK!
Re:Ubuntu Mobile ... (Score:4, Funny)
The Kindle is amazon's fork of android.
I am sure google would rather have them on vanilla android.
Is vanilla a flavor of Ice Cream Sandwich?
Re:come on! (Score:4, Funny)
OH fuck was ok, it didn't kill as many as "Hold my beer and watch this!"
Fixed for we Midwestern folk.
Re:But Android is open (Score:5, Funny)
and they're also dorks (Score:2, Funny)
Posts like this are really starting to annoy me.
Actually some people do care. They're called people who read slashdot. And the people who read slashdot don't really give a shit that 99% of the population does not give a shit. Do you know why? Because we are smarter, more educated and have longer attention spans.
And they also have a more insular, mostly online social circle that is childishly offended that other people dare disagree with them.
Re:But Android is open (Score:4, Funny)
If you remove Android from the equation, its share doesn't magically moves to Apple and Microsoft. Nokia was there with Symbian, you know? And they had an acceptable level of openness with it (I can't pass a link know because the symbian foundation blog is down, but they were moving to a fully open toolchain based on GNU tools). Plus, they were betting on more open systems like Maemo/MeeGo.
Of course, companies will eventually move to more open systems. Yes, more open than Android. Do you think that a giant like Samsung likes their phones to shout "Google" all over the place? Specially with the store, now that is not "Android", a neutral brand, but "Google Play" instead. They are working on Tizen, and probably will either branch from Android or use more systems (be it Mozilla's, Canonical's, etc.).
Re:come on! (Score:4, Funny)
Remember, the world's death rate stays steady at 100%.
Re:But Android is open (Score:4, Funny)
Four legs good, two legs bad
All Hail the Eight Legged Master Race!
Protip: Your eyeballs are inside out, unlike a superior cephalopod's, your eyes have veins running across the TOP of your retina, and thus have blind spots... Humans have back problems due to having erect spines that were never meant for that orientation, and nerves running under their feet! Your intelligent designer was a MORON! Long Live C'thulhu!