[SGVLUG] This is the droid you've been writing for...

[Tom Emerson]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:24 AM, John E. Kreznar <jek at ininx.com> wrote:
>
> Is it still the case that reading ("reverse engineering") of the SDK
> is forbidden by the terms?
>
> It used to be that one would have to agree as follows [1].
>
>   3.3 Except to the extent required by applicable third party
>   licenses, you may not copy (except for backup purposes), modify,
>   adapt, redistribute, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or
>   create derivative works of the SDK or any part of the SDK.  ...

> [1] http://developer.android.com/sdk/terms_body.html

hard to say - the specific reference you give here is 404, and the
android "site" seems to have conflicting terms associated with it:

   -- One page indicates the "documentation and samples" are covered
by the Apache license, while "everything else, unless specifically
noted" is covered by creative commons / share-with-attribution.

[see http://developer.android.com/license.html]

  -- however there is also a page that /specifically/ talks about the
SITE's license, which talks about the SERVICE that Google provides you
by way of the site, and vaguely refers to "software" as part of the
"service", and this has a similar proprietary rights/no reverse
engineering clause.  However, the SDK itself is not "specifically
noted"...

[see clauses 9 & 10 of http://www.android.com/terms.html]

(and note, I only gave this a brief scan - I could have missed a
specific mention of the SDK somewhere - but by the same token, I'm
finding it rather hard to find ANY terms-of-use for the SDK on that
site)