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 More options Jun 30 2008, 9:47 am
From: Joa <Joachim.Pfeif...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:47:13 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Jun 30 2008 9:47 am
Subject: Re: SDK Update?
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I don't believe Andre is on to much. I am not spending a terrible
amount of time this morning, so quickcheck, please help me out.
1. The SDK itself... that hasn't been released open source anyhow...
No discussion there.
2. The Linux derivative work might not have changed since posted on
the code page. Carriers are a different topic, but they can post the
source code with release of branded handsets and they are complying
with GPL but it's not of real use to anyone
3. I've downloaded the Android Eclipse plugin from the code page
however. I suppose it is considered derivative work and falls under
the Eclipse Public License. Up until m3-rc37 they've been on the ball.
m5-rc14 and m5-rc15 are not to be found, so they missed that. Big
deal, it should be easy to update the download site, no reason to get
hot about that unless the EPL enforcement police objects (now is there
such a thing). For inside-track SDK releases that needed changes to
the Eclipse plugin... all they need to do is release it to the NDA'ed
parties and they're OK, I believe.

On Jun 29, 10:42 pm, "Shane Isbell" <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting point. It looks as though Google is releasing GPL modified code
> for public releases but not for the private, NDA distributions.

> Shane

> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:08 PM, André Charles Legendre <

> andre.legen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hi

> > You will find below a question and its answer coming from :

> >http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowNDA

> >  Does the GPL allow me to distribute copies under a nondisclosure
> > agreement?

> >    No. The GPL says that anyone who receives a copy from you has the
> > right to redistribute copies, modified or not. You are not allowed to
> > distribute the work on any more restrictive basis.

> >    If someone asks you to sign an NDA for receiving GPL-covered
> > software copyrighted by the FSF, please inform us immediately by
> > writing to license-violat...@fsf.org.

> >    If the violation involves GPL-covered code that has some other
> > copyright holder, please inform that copyright holder, just as you
> > would for any other kind of violation of the GPL.

> > I would like to have an answer from Android team about this FSF
> > position about NDA and by extension I would like to know if Android
> > Team plan to publish new release to all of us.
> > All of us got big damages by the fact that we are locked and that we
> > cannot compete anymore with people having last release.
> > Some young company, who invested a lot around android are now
> > completely stuck because of this issue.

> > In any case it seems to me that most of Android community think that
> > it is not fair to keep private new release of SDK.

> > Regards

> > Andre Charles Legendre


 
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