Some questions about android on Freerunner

Matthias Huber matthias.huber at wollishausen.de
Fri Nov 6 10:12:28 CET 2009


 06.11.2009 08:32,   Shaz :
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> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Paul Fertser <fercerpav at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fercerpav at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     a dehqan <dehqan65 at gmail.com <mailto:dehqan65 at gmail.com>> writes:
>     > 3 - Problem is that : our religion Eslam says you can use a person
>     > code while he/she allows you , now There are codes and wiki and
>     > .. on Google host .Even google is not owner of codes , Host pertains
>     > to google . So using that address and host is not possible for
>     > moslems now .
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>     I can't exactly follow the logic. You said google doesn't want you to
>     use their site. In fact i doubt that's true. They don't care if you
>     use their site or not; they implemented that "restriction" solely to
>     make some US jerks happy and to not have any problems with their
>     inappropriate legislation. Also you should note that google is not a
>     person, it's a large corporation functioning in a complex
>     international environment. So even if they say they're prohibiting
>     something it doesn't mean they actually do (and in fact they can't)
>     and/or want it.
>
>     I hope someone more skilled in Islam than me can clarify this matter
>     from a religious POV but judging on common grounds it's perfectly
>     moral to circumvent an artificial restriction especially given that
>     restricting anybody is not intended.
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>
> In simple words Google cannot give you something directly and you have 
> to get it through the third party because the first party wants to 
> give it to you while an /influential/ body above google is just 
> creating hurdles due to its own interests. So I guess there is no 
> moral issue to get it through a third party and Google has no benefit 
> in restricting it, infact it is going against their interest 
> considering the matter at hand.
and from the view of the license GPL, it is explicitely allowed to use 
and modify this code.
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