Well, they could have used their signature instead of yours. JBQ
2009/4/18 fdimeglio <[email protected]>: > > Hello, > > I am the developer of OthBase an Othello/Reversi game application for > Android available as a free and paid download. > > To my surprise I have received a couple of days ago the following > email: > > ========== > from: [email protected] > > Dear Mr. /Ms, > > Good day！ > > This is Kevin from China, my teammates and I have an android community > website-www.91android.com (one of the leading Android community > websites in China), we are hoping to get your authorization to > localize and post your Android application-OthBase on our site. > > We are aiming to make our website the No.1 Android community in China > mainland by publishing android news, localized applications, etc. > After hardworking and popularizing for months, we have accumulated > great amount of registers, and have received great attention from > Android fans and media. > > Now, we need to get your permission to localize your android > application mentioned above and put it onto our website. What we are > offering is a free service and you can regard our website as a > distribution mechanism (quite like android market, but to distribute > the Chinese version). > > We hope and believe that we can both benefit from our cooperation. > > 1. We can introduce your application to the huge user group in China > mainland. > 2. We can attract more attention by publishing the Chinese version of > your application on our website. > > If you are interested, or have any questions, please don't hesitate to > let me know. Look forward to your feedbacks and suggestions soon. > > Best regards, > > Kevin Xue > > 2009-04-16 > fatty228 > > ========== > > So I went to their website, done registration and searched for > OthBase. I could find that they are distributing without my agreement > an apk of my application localized in Chinese. > > I immediately sent to this person an email to stop distributing my > software but I dont know if he will follow my request. > > Another concern is that after getting their apk, I could install it > without any issue on my ADP1 and looking at the manifest I could see > that they have changed the resources and been able to sign all this > again to make it a perfectly viable apk file. > > How can this be possible ???? > > Any suggestion, idea would be very welcome. > > Fabrice > > > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
