[Android-tools-devel] Android SDK license

[Jack Dodds]

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Thank you for the details.

Since you say that installing android-sdk-common should allow
the user to skip the licence issue, is it possible that the
statement that I referenced in my first post is out of date?

(That statement was: "Accepting SDK license - - - To use the
android-sdk you must accept its license. At the present moment
there are some ways to do so, but none of them is perfect." from
https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools/IntroBuildingApps )

Jack Dodds

殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan  <seamlik at debian.org> wrote:
> > 1. If the source code is "free software", why does the user have
> > to accept a license?
> 
> The binaries downloaded from Google website is not free
> software, and we don't want to make efforts in removing the
> logic about licenses.
> 
> > 2. Where is the full text of the license to which the user is
> > agreeing?
> 
> For the actual license text you are looking for, see
> <https://salsa.debian.org/android-tools-team/android-sdk-meta/blob/debian/25.0.0+12/tools/package.xml#L6>
> which is in fact a pointer.
> 
> Under the hood, when user agree to the license either in
> command line or the IDE, a hash of the license text is stored
> under `$ANDROID_HOME/licenses` directory. Package
> `android-sdk-common` already provides that file, so installing
> it should allow you to skip the license matter. (Unless there
> is some bug...)
> 
> > Let me say that I think the developers' effort to get this
> > software into Debian is important for the future of free
> > software and I appreciate it very much.
> 
> Glad to hear feedback!
>

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