19 messages in com.googlegroups.android-internalsRe: Does This Group Violate Google's ...
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ashayk23 Nov 2007 00:52 
Subject:Re: Does This Group Violate Google's Terms and Conditions...?
From:omattos (omat@gmail.com)
Date:11/22/2007 11:42:46 PM
List:com.googlegroups.android-internals

well yes, but then the audio framework isn't a large part in the majority of applications....

On Nov 23, 5:12 am, ashayk <audi@gmail.com> wrote:

I think you raise an excellent point. The discrepency between the stated policy you quote and the intent of this list is a little odd. I'll tell what's more disappointing, though. Seeing this thread go on with ZERO input from anyone at Google. These are exactly the kinds of questions one should expect in the beginning and be prepared to help and encourage the community. The silence is deafening so far. IMHO, they've released this code much too early. It doesn't seem anywhere near complete to even begin doing anything other than HelloWorld. The Audio Architecture, which I'm particularly interested in, is nothing but a skeletal placeholder at this point. Hopefully, things will improve, but the first impression hasn't been all that great.

On Nov 22, 12:32 am, Lefty <ston@gmail.com> wrote:

I was interested to note that the Terms and Conditions associated with the Android SDK aren't with the "Open Handset Alliance," they're with Google, Inc.

I was also intrigued to find the following statement in section 3.2 of those terms and conditions: "Until the SDK is released under an open source license, you may not extract the source code or create a derivative work of the SDK."

So, any attempts to look into the internals of Android (at least if they could be construed as "extracting source code") or effort to port it onto actual hardware of some sort (although I expect those efforts are doomed in advance, since Android's pretty effectively the "most closed open source project" to date) would seem to be in violation of the Terms and Conditions here....- Hide quoted text -