"The original application could be downloaded for free from the Market. It is now £2.99. I thought the market Developer Distribution Agreement stopped a developer from releasing an application as free and then subsiquently charging for it. Isn't this exactly what happened?"
Now that's a very good point. Can someone shed some light on whether this policy has changed. 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 MidnighToker Sent: 17 April 2009 18:03 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Developer Ethics I could very well be wrong on both my points, but: 1) AFAIK, the GPL ("Copyleft") licence, seems to mean that if you modify source code, then you have to make all of the changes available back to the community, still under the GPL licence. I believe this is why the Android Project ended up using the Apache licence for most of the project, as well as why some major abstraction layers within the OS were introduced (it is possible to use binary drivers OUTSIDE of kernel space, so they don't have to fall under GPL). 2) The salient point that jumps to my mind (and that the thread seems to have missed, is): The original application could be downloaded for free from the Market. It is now £2.99. I thought the market Developer Distribution Agreement stopped a developer from releasing an application as free and then subsiquently charging for it. Isn't this exactly what happened? MidnighToker. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
