Checking to see if there's status on this one. This seems to be a pretty cut-and-dry Google Code violation, for several reasons:
* It's hosting closed source binaries that are not part of the OSS distribution (the files in .iso files mentioned above) * It's hosting files Google has clearly said distribution of which are prohibited<http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/09/note-on-google-apps-for-android.html> * The Intel binaries also included are clearly not open source, clearly not permitted for OSS distribution * The developer/admin refuses to provide any justification for the existence of these files in the .iso images hosted on Google Code I'd appreciate Google Code Hosting taking action on this. If there has been some policy change on the distribution of Google Play, I'm all ears. On Sunday, September 1, 2013 12:16:02 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > The Google Code group "*android-x86*" recently began hosting builds > continuing following components that are unauthorized copyright > infringements: > > * The Google Play Store > * Google Experience apps such as Google Maps.apk for Android, YouTube.apk > and Gmail.apk > * Intel's libhoudini.so - a file Intel has said distribution of which is > prohibited outside of licensed devices > > Google has previously stated that third-party Android > firmwares/distributions are not authorized to distribute Google Play within > them. The infringing content was only added to this Google Code project > recently. > > I respectfully attempted to contact the group, to which the owner claims, > basically, that "Google doesn't care" - I seriously doubt this. > > Here are the affected files on the Google Code group "*android-x86*" > > android-x86-4.3-20130725.iso > android-x86-4.0-r1.1-asus_laptop.iso > android-x86-4.0-r1-tx2500.iso > android-x86-4.0-r1-thinkpad.iso > android-x86-4.0-r1-s103t.iso > android-x86-4.0-r1-tegav2.iso > android-x86-4.0-r1-eeepc.iso > > Unfortunately, the infringing files are contained inside the ISO, inside > of a squasfs image. You won't be able to see them well without > decompressing. It's probably easier to burn the ISO onto a flash drive, and > boot it to see for yourself. > > Thanks for your attention to this infringement report. > > P.S. For those unaware, Android-x86.org is a homebrew project, *not* an > official Google project. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
