Bug#792670: androidsdk-ddms: android sdk license appears to violate debian charter

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Mon Jul 20 18:39:30 UTC 2015


hi emmanuel, dr stallman investigated and has this to point out:

The Google SDK license contains this text

    3.5 Use, reproduction and distribution of components of the SDK
    licensed under an open source software license are governed solely
    by the terms of that open source software license and not this
    License Agreement.

Since (as far as we know) all free software is open source, this has
the effect of withdrawing all their conditions from the SDK components
that are free.  They are not violating the GNU GPL.

Of course, the rest of their SDK is unethical because it is nonfree,
and people should not accept their conditions.



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