Easy Root App Removed From Android Marketplace

"Interestingly though, it is Google and not the developer who has pulled the app from the marketplace. The reasoning is not exactly clear since rooting is now legal and hence Google – a company that extolls open source – should have no problem with letting a rooting application on their marketplace.

"There are speculations though that the app may have been removed because it used Google's open source for profit-making motives."

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