<story><title>Android SDK is now proprietary</title><url>http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2013/01/03/android-sdk-is-now-proprietary-replicant-to-the-rescue/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fpgeek</author><text>Hold on a minute.&lt;p&gt;While the Android SDK terms have changed over the years (most notably with the recent &quot;anti-fragmentation&quot; clause), that&apos;s not what the post is talking about. Instead, the post is identifying the Android SDK as non-free because you have to agree to Google&apos;s Terms and Conditions in order to use it at all. That&apos;s absolutely correct, however...&lt;p&gt;As someone who downloaded the original SDK in 2007, I can tell you that this was true from the beginning. Sadly the Wayback Machine is having trouble retrieving their first crawl of the terms (February 2009), but here&apos;s a crawl from January 2010 that shows that the offending clause has been there for at least 3 years: &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20100111025451/http://developer.android.com/intl/ja/sdk/terms.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://web.archive.org/web/20100111025451/http://developer.a...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A more accurate title would be: Google&apos;s Android SDK has always been proprietary, but I only just noticed.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Based on the date at the bottom of the wayback page, the linked version of the agreement dates back to April 2009.</text></comment>
<story><title>Android SDK is now proprietary</title><url>http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2013/01/03/android-sdk-is-now-proprietary-replicant-to-the-rescue/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codeflo</author><text>At first I thought this is hyperbole, but there&apos;s an anti-forking clause in the license agreement:&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; &quot;3.4 You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK.&quot;&lt;p&gt;IANAL, but this seems to be designed to prevent projects like the Kindle Fire from building their own ecosystem on Google&apos;s code. Good for Google I guess, but no longer in the spirit of open source.</text></comment>