Uhm. What were the legal considerations? Anyway, for the future, I can suggest to protect your app under whatever Free Software license (because every Free Software license includes a strong discharge of liability, see the GNU General Public License for example) and then just release your app using F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/ I hope you will solve your legal problems, if they come from the Play Store EULA. >>> Hello, >>> >>> in 2016 I wrote a small Android app, that is making use of the >Wikipedia >>> ActionApi to search for articles at the current location of a user. >>> Due to legal considerations I am currently trying to take down the >app. >>> It’s not available any more in the Google PlayStore, but there are >still >>> installations out there. >>> That’s why I want to make these installations unusable by >deactivating >>> all backend services, that the app is using. >>> Unfortunately the app is (partially) directly communicating with >>> wikipedia servers and not via a proxy under my control. >>> The app sends a special User-Agent HTTP header with every request to >>> identify itself: >>> >>> tagorama/v1.0.0.283-release (http://tagorama.rocks/; >info@tagorama.rocks) >>> >>> Is there any way for you to block requests from this app? >>> Who would I contact? >>> >>> Thanks for your help, >>> Frank Wunderlich >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mediawiki-api mailing list >>> Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >>> >> >> >> -- >> Brad Jorsch (Anomie) >> Senior Software Engineer >> Wikimedia Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-api mailing list >> Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-api mailing list >> Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >> -- E-mail sent from the "K-9 mail" app from F-Droid, installed in my LineageOS device without proprietary Google apps. I'm delivering through my Postfix mailserver installed in a Debian GNU/Linux. Have fun with software freedom! [[User:Valerio Bozzolan]] _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
