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It's much worse than thatIt's much worse than thatPosted Nov 14, 2007 14:39 UTC (Wed) by robilad (guest, #27163)In reply to: It's much worse than that by sepreece Parent article: Google Calling: Inside Android, the gPhone SDK (O'ReillyNet)
It's not a regular clause in EULAs. It's not there by come copy-paste mistake by Google's lawyers. It has been deliberately crafted, weighed, and put in there to give Google exclusive control over 'open' platform. You don't introduce a gun in the first act, if you don't intend to use it in the third. If Google intended to play fair, it wouldn't need such terms.
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It's much worse than that Posted Nov 14, 2007 17:41 UTC (Wed) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link] Again, it's a pre-release, explicitly under different license terms than the eventual SDK and platform. This particular clause appears to be specific to the pre-release; my own guess would be that it won't be in the eventual license, but my guess has no more significance than anyone elses...
It's much worse than that Posted Nov 15, 2007 3:00 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] Actually lawyers do introduce 'guns in the first act without using them in the third act' the time.. its one of the problems with real life versus fiction.
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