Given all these legal mumbo jumbos I'm starting to believe, I should have taken legal and then started coding!
take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://groups.google.com/group/adc-2 http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz http://androidrocks.googlecode.com - Android Consulting. Sent from Tamil Nadu, India Mark Twain <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mark_twain.html> - "There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:35 PM, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Comment 5 in the linked thread says; >> >> "Sorry, it is not possible to un-publish your code." >> > > this applies to un-publishing GPL-ed covered source code from Google Code > (it's a "code hosting" bug, not a Market one). > This hardly relates to stopping publication of binary packages from Android > Market. > > >> >> I've tried contacting the developer, but they have not replied :(. >> >> Al. >> >> -- >> >> * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * >> >> ====== >> Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the >> company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, >> 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. >> >> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not >> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's >> subsidiaries. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Cédric Berger >> Sent: 03 June 2009 08:44 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Copyright enforcement outside of the US >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 09:18, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Fortunately the paid version developer was good enough to stick to the >> GPL clause making the source code available and someone re-compiled it and >> listed it as a free app. The paid-for developer then tried to get the free >> one taken down, but was unsuccessful (see >> http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=2551) :). >> > >> > In the process though it was re-iterated that applications can't be >> un-published by developers, so even if the developer infringing on your >> copyright agrees to take their app down they can't actually do it :O. >> >> >> In the linked thread it is not obvious that it was meant that a >> developer can not un-publish an application. I understood it as being >> about un-publishing source code released under GPL. >> >> In your case, did you manage to get in touch with the publisher of your >> app ? >> (and even if he could not unpublish, he can at the very least update >> the application description to explain the case...) >> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
