[Android-tools-devel] Android SDK license

[殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan]

In theory, nothing is needed to be done to skip the licensing matter, but the tutorial instructs you to overwrite the license files from somewhere else which contains the incorrect hash. That is probably why I keep seeing people complaining the licensing bug. So I believe the tutorial is a little bit incompatible with the packages in Debian.

Jack Dodds via Android-tools-devel 於 2020/2/12 上午7:29 寫道:
> 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 statement that I referenced in my first post is out of date?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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