I could very well be wrong on both my points, but:
1) AFAIK, the GPL ("Copyleft") licence, seems to mean that if you
modify source code, then you have to make all of the changes available
back to the community, still under the GPL licence.
I believe this is why the Android Project ended up using the Apache
licence for most of the project, as well as why some major abstraction
layers within the OS were introduced (it is possible to use binary
drivers OUTSIDE of kernel space, so they don't have to fall under
GPL).
2) The salient point that jumps to my mind (and that the thread seems
to have missed, is):
The original application could be downloaded for free from the Market.
It is now £2.99.
I thought the market Developer Distribution Agreement stopped a
developer from releasing an application as free and then subsiquently
charging for it.
Isn't this exactly what happened?
MidnighToker.
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