No, Google is not making the Android SDK proprietary. What's the fuss about? | Linux Today

No, Google is not making the Android SDK proprietary. What’s the fuss about?

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jan 7, 2013

The Free Software Foundation Europe is claiming that recent changes to the Google’s Android Software Development Kit licensing terms has made the SDK into proprietary software. But if you look closely, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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