Some questions about android on Freerunner

[Shaz]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Matthias Huber <
matthias.huber at wollishausen.de> wrote:

>   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> wrote:
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>> a dehqan <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.
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>> 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.
>

I think Apache license.


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