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Its worth noting that Cyanogen has changed his work to comply with Google: http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/cyanogen-android-rom-modder-bends-to-googles-will-
by phsr 17y ago
Its worth noting that Cyanogen has changed his work to comply with Google: http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/cyanogen-android-rom-modder-bends-to-googles-will-but-does-not/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/cyanogen-android-rom-modd...
- dustingetz 17y agoOf course he did. He did roughly the moral equivalent of redistributing MP3s, Google told him to knock it off, he did.
- eldenbishop 17y agoNot even close. This is the moral equivalent of putting a new muffler on your Honda. He is tweaking apps he purchased (all android phone owners have such a license) and distributing those tweaks to people who also have licenses for those apps. You have clearly drunk the kool-aid.
- jcl 17y agoThere are devices that do not ship with Android but can run it, like the OpenMoko Freerunner and numerous netbooks. So even if you assume that the license somehow trumps copyright, he could easily have been giving away the apps to people who are not licensed.