Funny this is a topic that deals with something all Developers should know about.
On Sep 27, 2:53 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > Jeffrey Blattman wrote: > > the big deal is that the license does not grant the right to > > re-distribute. this is pretty standard for a closed source license. > > > while it's true that most (all?) android phones come with the google > > apps today, there's no requirement of that and it may not be the case in > > the future. mr. cell phone maker can take AOSP and build their own dist > > and choose not to include the google apps. google doesn't want mr. happy > > phone owners to be able to install a 3rd party dist that includes the > > google apps. why not? because mr. happy vendor didn't license the apps > > from google, and the apps weren't tested on mr. happy vendor's hardware. > > Where Mr. Happy Vendor = Archos, among others. > > @Fugita: This list is for introductory Q&A on developing with the > Android SDK. For other topics, please post to the [android-discuss] list: > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Need help for your Android OSS project?http://wiki.andmob.org/hado --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
