[Android-tools-devel] Android SDK license

[Jack Dodds]

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OK, thanks again for taking the time to answer my questions.

I will try the process myself in two or three weeks when I have
time. I wanted to have a clear understanding of the procedure
before starting, to avoid making a big mess!

Jack


殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan  <seamlik at debian.org> wrote:
> 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 statement that I referenced in my first post is out of date?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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