I just put an article showing the advancement of Android, let's say an article pro or in favor of Android, however ... this will not be ¬_¬
To use a software you must agree with its license, with its terms and conditions of use ... well, let's read the conditions or terms of use of the Android SDK:
3.3 You may not use the SDK for any purpose not expressly permitted by this License Agreement. Except to the extent required by applicable third party licenses, you may not: (to) copy (except for backup purposes), modify, Customized, redistributes, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, Or create derivative works of the SDK or any part of the SDK; or (b) load any part of the SDK onto a mobile handset or any other hardware device except a personal computer, combine any part of the SDK with other software, or distribute any software or device incorporating a part of the SDK.
Which explained in a simple way would be:
You can NOT make copies of the SDK (except if it is a personal backup of yours), you cannot modify or adapt it to your needs, you cannot redistribute it, reverse engineer it, separate it or divide it, nor create derivatives (forks I assume) of the SDK or parts of it.
Only 3 letters ... - » WTF
Luckily there is Repeat … A fork of the Android SDK that was made before these new regulations or restrictions existed. (website of ReplicantSDK)
This without a doubt, although I'm not an Android developer by any means ... it hurts and bothers me, well ... ¬_¬ … Will I have to agree with the detractors of Android and lower my head with their criticism?
Google, you are officially the # 3 global corporation I hate the most….
Do people really still believe in Google's "don't be evil" slogan? Android is only open source software, it was never in favor of the principles of the Free Software philosophy, a shame in reality, the only messiah would be FirefoxOS powered with HTML5 applications, Dalvik is a headache.
DalvikVM may not be a blast, but it has been around for about 3-5 years and has brought Android to where it is. I am not saying that HTML5 does not have potential, if it does, it remains to be seen if when applied in a low-performance prototype available to the public it works as good as it sounds.
I assume that WebGL (OpenGL) will be able to give the same graphic acceleration as pure OpenGL natively, and that by the time Firefox OS comes out, all the minimum APIs are ready for proper operation and use of Hardware. That is, cameras, microphones, external headphones.
It will be a world of possibilities, I hope it does not disappoint 😛
A pity ... I have never had a smartphone but I had an android in mind and see these practices ...
Too bad, if they don't correct it and Tizen works well, we're going to have to change ...
You're putting it like oohh what is this !!
I remind you that this news is from November 20 or so and the world has not yet been destroyed, nor has the market share fallen, I think it has even risen.
Besides, what's good about Tizen? What's behind Samsung? As far as I know, Samsung terminals are rubbish and I say it having a Note, a Note II, and two S3s in my house, all being used each by one person, and simply with the problems of the S3 and how badly they update I have enough hearing.
That your programming is with HTML5? Hmm, that is, the rendering is left to the web browser engines, right? This for 3D games does not work, not to mention that the final specification of HTML5 has not come out, and in android it can also be programmed in HTML5.
This was put relatively recently and it was because companies that took tools from the Google SDK and made their derivatives were beginning to proliferate, which fragments the android versions even more if possible, and the SDK is a job that they have done. I see none wrong to prohibit the division of the pack or misuse, after all we are only talking about the SDK, not android or anything like that.
An example of this we have with Kindle, which uses a modified version of android, which already fragments the versions more and makes programmers have to take into account another device, as if they were not enough.
We have another example in the Chinese versions, such as MIUI and some other that modifies the SDK to program their versions.
What they have to achieve this year is to eliminate all the possible fragmentation, if your programs in Android you should take into account 2 or 3 types of terminals, not 400 something like it happens now. If they do not get this during this year, I am very afraid that Ubuntu for Phones will begin to eat up ground, because of how they have taught it it is quite well and by programming in C you gain a lot of performance in addition to that they have said that it would be easy to port android apps to Ubuntu
What did you think?. This is what happens when things are done for money. Google is a great company and the smallest step it takes is aimed at the same thing: Earn money the more the better and as easily and quickly as possible, heh, heh.
agree!!!
That if I'm not wrong was done by a Chinese company that was selling devices with an android fork that only accepted apps from that company, but the problem itself was that other companies (specifically Asus, if I'm not wrong) wanted to do the same. In the end I think that only applied to companies that were within Google's partners. I'm almost sure something like that was but if I'm wrong to be corrected: D.
Oo go ... Will it also apply to the «Platform Tools»? Because those debugging tools by platform are included by certain apps to root, install recovery, etc.
If so, tremendous garbage for third parties. For a direct user of the SDK there would be no problems.
I knew replicant, although no idea they had an SDK. However, by "forking" the SDK, which is supposed to be no longer free, wouldn't they be breaking that rule? "Forbidden to copy / modify one or more parts of the SDK"?
I still plan to continue using the current SDK. The difference will be that the root tools Devs (etc ...) will ask us to install the full SDk instead of including small parts of the ADB (Android Debugging Bridge, or Android Debugging Bridge).
Every day I see more future to Firefox OS or Ubuntu Phone OS, at least for me 😀
As we have no guarantee that Ubuntu Phone OS will not end up like this (come on, it's likely), I would bet on Firefox OS (which also requires fewer resources, can revive relics).
if canonical uses gpl i think it can't do that.
But notice, ELAV, how prophetic my words are! Google is the new Microsoft!
+1. I would bet on Ubuntu Phone, mainly for compatibility with my other systems. And from my understanding Canonical will continue with their usual gpl policy.
I get the feeling that you are exaggerating the news. We are talking about the Android SDK, not Android. And there someone has already said that he is going to think about alternatives? What is the SDK !! Android remains the same. They are not going to make it pay, nor is it going to burn your screen when you use it, nor is it going to kill children in Africa. The SDK will simply stop being free. How evil is it, knowing everything that Google offers us freely?
Google offers many free services ONLY AND ONLY BECAUSE they bring you millions in economic profits (read: propaganda, marketing, ads, etc) that no one believes that Google is the Red Cross, or Greenpeace or anything like that!
Hello, how are you?
Yes, it is true, it is only the Android SDK, nothing more ... but some of us do not feel completely comfortable or at ease when we are prohibited from using something in a certain or certain way, that is ... to be told: «take this, but you can't share, adapt or make copies of it“… Come on, it's not quite nice, is it?
But @Tanrax the SDK IS what interests us as developers, without this free there will be no more modified roms, no more miui, no more cyanogen, etc ... the fun is over.
I do not develop in android because I do not like the API and java can put as many blushes as they want, which is still very daft. I had my hopes for meego and qt, ñiff, ñiff ... but the madlito son of the great ... elop the Trojan spoiled it in Nokia, I hope that Tizen as successor does not die prematurely, that time all the OEMs said they were going to use meego and at the end pum.
Wait a moment. How that no more ROMs? The ROMs are based on the Android source code, not the SDK (unless they are those super preliminary ROMs that they do as proof of concept, based on the Android images from the SDK).
In any case, the SDK is used by Cyanogen and company to debug the ROM, they do not have to modify it at all. Only, for example, third parties will no longer be able to make free use of the SDK in their tools, for example, a program to root a tablet.
Other than that, All It does not matter.
Right, sorry the paranoia is that the news scares.
By the way @Kzkg a Qt5 post that came out now !!! http://qt-project.org/qt5
I have not been updated with the latest versions in recent months ^ - ^ U
Well, it is no longer free software, and? They have every right to do what they want with the software they develop, they will have had their good reasons.
* develop
pff develop
Be careful man, for such a comment you can be banned from here ... LoL
Nah 😀… not at all, yes, when I published the news I was willing to bet my house that you would leave several comments here LOL !!
I do not enter to assess the news but some sites deny that it is so. Source: http://www.zdnet.com/no-google-is-not-making-the-android-sdk-proprietary-whats-the-fuss-about-7000009406/
Hello,
Thanks for the link, I open it and read what it is about, however it catches my attention ... because in the terms of use of the SDK they also put the terms or restrictions, I left the link in the post.
Anyway, thanks 🙂
according to zdnet: what is "proprietary" is the SDK binary, the sources are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
Anyway, you have to use a proprietary program to access its sources, it doesn't matter….
To develop for ubuntu phone then.
Eternal hatred of the modern smartphone!
I never liked Android for being JAVA with a nice name. Although it is true that the final product is good, the fact that it is Java is still a thorn in the bottom of the foot.
I do not see the time that the Ubuntu Phone appears (if it is true that it will be a fork of GNU / Linux pure) or any other phone that offers the same possibilities (or greater, better!) But above all that is not Java.
JAVA SUCKS
It does not surprise me, it is more ... I would not be surprised if Google repeats it with many other of its products, such as Chromium
Little by little they will be less free soft as they dominate markets
Use free software as a tool to beat the competition and then abandon it
Welcome to capitalism, we use you, we betray you and we exploit all your ideas under our licenses
+1
This is all about it. I abide by your words, Rainbow_fly.
Sometimes I wonder, all of us who criticize this kind of thing (myself included) wouldn't we do the same if we had the possibility of starting a company like Google to make a profit? Which also leads me to another question, won't Canonical do the same once Ubuntu Phone hits the market, after all it has been investing in Ubuntu? Hmm ... how complicated this is getting.
It all depends on the licenses they use. If they use the GNU GPL they won't be able to.
I always wondered the same about earnings. I think I would too ...
Mmmm I do not know. google is one of the largest companies in the world, does it need more profit?
Software freedom, well we all know what we swarm around here, transcends is a matter of money. For this reason, I am not convinced by this conformism of "if I had a company I would close the code.
* transcends the issue of money.
I think you are right, we criticize it because we are not in the same situation. I don't think Microsoft, Apple or Google are evil, what happens is that they are not philanthropic companies, they want profits, period. Apple fan buy apple for security, no matter the high price and criticize linux with everything. Those of Microsoft for the large amount of game and because with Win8 I think they did something better. And google well, google one day is going to rape us and we won't even notice.
But I still believe that companies are to make money, not for something else. Who sometimes abuse the user? Yes. But it is there.
Apart from the demos, has Canonical posted any images or posted the source code? It is doubt. That way we could start questioning Ubuntu Phone.
Regarding the other point, if I started a company, I would release under GPL. My work is protected from ready to come privatize the code and I can take advantage of the huge workforce that people bring to the table. entertainment, if we can call it that.
You can do a contest with a monetary prize for someone to come and give you your desired feature under the GPL and not pay them a salary.
I say.
Look, leaving aside the profit, which are as legal as in any other business; Has anyone ever wondered how much all the services offered by Google cost for free? Or is it that they still think that money falls from the sky or grows on trees, please ...
On the other hand, the license change is from the SDK, which the vast majority do not use it at all and a good part have no idea what it is, as many comments show. That the criticism of Google for this is valid, okay, but you don't have to make a storm in a glass of water.
This makes me want to mess around with Ubuntu Phone more.
I would like to ask anyone who knows what has changed in the terms of use of the SDK?
In 2009, point 3.3 already existed: http://web.archive.org/web/20100111025451/http://developer.android.com/intl/ja/sdk/terms.html
I will ask the question in a different way to see if someone will answer me. Is the Android SDK not free software in 2009?
Unfortunately the closure of Android but, it was to be expected given that the large computer companies maintain so much gratitude!
Let's see how Samsung does with Tizen or Firefox OS.
Regards!
And what exactly is the SDK and how does it affect me as the owner of an android terminal?
SDK stands for Software Development Kit, tools to develop applications basically do not affect you at all as a user only if you are a developer since, since it is no longer free software, there are certain restrictions with what you can or cannot do.
It's great
Nor do I care, I have mine spforkIO. Before this mandate.