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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