ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.
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Re: ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.
#2I don't have any respect for ZodTTD. For years he's been taking open source software and reselling it on Cydia with no attribution for the original authors. As far as I'm concerned, he's a thief.
Re: ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.
#3The title on reddit was implied that ZodTTD was going to respond to the licensing claims. I see nothing here that serves as a response to the claims being levied against yongzh and ZodTTD.
Re: ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.
#4The title on reddit was implied that ZodTTD was going to respond to the licensing claims. I see nothing here that serves as a response to the claims being levied against yongzh and ZodTTD.
"First and foremost, our takedowns have nothing to do with any sort of open source licensing violation. Both Yong and I handle developer relations behind the scenes. We give cuts to original authors at times, and I have posted sources to my source repository. Though there is a lot of rhetoric surrounding this, it is not an issue."
Re: ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.
#5Sorry ZodTTD, that's not how Open Source licenses work. Cutting a back room deal with some of the original authors for a cut of your profits doesn't absolve you from blatant violation of a software license. If that even happened, considering that all we have to go on is your already tarnished word that you're passing the profits along.
You have a rotten history of taking others' open source work and trying to turn it around for a quick buck. Google had every right to suspend your accounts.
Re: ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.
#6I don't have any respect for ZodTTD. For years he's been taking open source software and reselling it on Cydia with no attribution for the original authors. As far as I'm concerned, he's a thief.
> As far as I'm concerned, he's a thief.
Oh really? If they violated licencing terms, drop a mail the EFF[1] guys and they'll help to sort it out. They already have helped in sorting out a bunch of cases, most often amicably.
If ZodTTD conformed to the licensing terms, what's your point? It's the original developer that picks particular license -- wide is variety available already, covering most grounds.
Re: ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.
#7I don't have any respect for ZodTTD. For years he's been taking open source software and reselling it on Cydia with no attribution for the original authors. As far as I'm concerned, he's a thief.
> As far as I'm concerned, he's a thief. Oh really? If they violated licencing terms, drop a mail the EFF[1] guys and they'll help to sort it out. They already have helped in sorting out a bunch of cases, most often amicably. If ZodTTD conformed to the licensing terms, what's your point? It's the original developer that picks particular license -- wide is variety available already, covering most grounds. [1] http://w…
EFF only does stuff if an actual copyright holder asks them to (and signs a legally binding thing as such), not random internet people.
Re: ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.
#8I don't have any respect for ZodTTD. For years he's been taking open source software and reselling it on Cydia with no attribution for the original authors. As far as I'm concerned, he's a thief.
I'm wading into something I have absolutely no background on, but I want to say something about the "shape" of what is happening here, not necessarily related to its exact specifics.
In a situation where there is a free (as in beer) product, and someone comes along and then sells it "for a quick buck", they are not automatically thieves - they are in fact doing the work of the free market by promoting and spreading the product. Their value add is in packaging, distribution, advertising, etc.
Now, if things are done without attribution in contravention of licenses etc., then it's straight up illegal and wrong. I just wanted to point out that selling something which is normally free is not automatically immoral or ripping people off.
Re: ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.
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#10The issue here isn't ZodTTD, it's Google. Whatever licensing issues there are surrounding this, are we to believe the entire Android team wasn't closely watching sales of the questionably legal emulators that were selling like hotcakes on Market?
Google wants to have their cake and eat it too. They'll only support devs as long as it will help them get their App Store (TM) off the ground.
Good for business, probably. But definitely Evil.