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Under the relevant licenses he's allowed to modify and re-release any code providing he provides the source freely. Which he doesn't
He is allowed to charge a fee for warranty / support but not for payment for the software.
As everything falls behind his "donation" wall, it is in breach of the relevant licenses.
He is allowed to charge a fee for warranty / support but not for payment for the software.
As everything falls behind his "donation" wall, it is in breach of the relevant licenses.
Applications can be and are copywritten. Thats why cyanogen does not include google apps. Google was seeking to prosecute wes based on the inclusion of their apps in cm roms. To circvent that, he removes them.
Nobody here is claiming copywrite to the roms themselves, but it is against the android (apache) licensing agreement that the software cannot be sold, or hosted behind donator only links. Thats where his site hits a legal barrier. I am no lawyer by any means, but if you read the licensing agreement, his hosting the way it is, is bad juju.
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OP - Can you please post a "Sample twitt" Honestly I'm just a lazy turd and would rather copy/paste it if possible. sorry
akaskriller - "I would've gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids."
akaskriller - "I would've gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids."
No these things don't have "Copyrights" on them but they are protected by other laws like GPL and similar laws and licences.
Really? I guess that 'feature' was added when I posted something on his "GB" thread. I got an ipban. lul
OP - Can you please post a "Sample twitt" Honestly I'm just a lazy turd and would rather copy/paste it if possible. sorry
akaskriller - "I would've gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids."
Haha, I had already added one prior to your post
SWEET!
Add AndroidSPIN to the list of sites that posted the article!!
ARTICLE can be found here (much respect for them too)
Add AndroidSPIN to the list of sites that posted the article!!
ARTICLE can be found here (much respect for them too)
Wish I could go and edit these things... the typos are KILLING me.
I also wish it stated it was $5/month.... sounds like a one time thing (poorly written by me).
I also wish it stated it was $5/month.... sounds like a one time thing (poorly written by me).
Nice, I will add this to the ticket I opened with his host, I'll also forward the relevant details to Gameloft.
Gameloft JUST started getting into the Market....
They will HATE this guy.
Wish I could hit thanks to you and your efforts!
sorry i posted the thread about the so-called "working" gps for the "2.3.2" rom akaskriller "made". i did not see this article beforehand. just my random daily browsing of xda. i came across that thread which was made today in the general section and was curious as to how he got the gps to "work".
i figured id share, but now i know better. i was thinking that it could have been a build.prop edit (super easy), but didnt know this guy was already known for ripping off people and stealing other devs hard work.
so again...sorry for that post.
heres to hoping for a fully functional gb rom soon.
i figured id share, but now i know better. i was thinking that it could have been a build.prop edit (super easy), but didnt know this guy was already known for ripping off people and stealing other devs hard work.
so again...sorry for that post.
heres to hoping for a fully functional gb rom soon.
Quick reply from Gameloft
Oh yes, now its happening.
Oh yes, now its happening.
There was a mix-up and another mod moved it to the wrong area, but I've moved it back.
Do NOT apologize man... I made this thread to try and prevent stuff like this from happening. At least you didn't give him money!
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23Very important:
Respect the rules of XDA.. post like you thought about it, not out of rage.
I do not want to promote/help this guy.
There is a fine line between this and simply informing people.
I think the latter is worth the risk.
OP was cleaned up since its getting so much attention now
5/17/11 synopsis:
The Android Community rallied. A lot was accomplished. But, we haven't succeeded.
Make Wednesday even better. Tweet, write articles and submit them to sites, post on facebook, just do something.
Site was/is down... but because he took it down for maintenance. Not his ISP shutting him down.
ARTICLES PUBLISHED FROM OUR EFFORTS (And growing....):
UncutAndroid published it first, they tell it how it is and let users speak their mind.
AndoidSPIN Much respect for them too!
Voice Of Android Found me a new site!
RESULTS?!?!
His site is currently down...
Our developers (some who have not been around in a long time) and some who used to feud are ALL working together
and of course the below work...
Thanks to the community and XDA user andyharney we have ("You are" is directed at akaskriller, obviously):
WAIT, WHAT'S GOING DOWN?
Recently in one of my guides, a user who apparently did not understand the intent of the thread, starting going off on me that my thread should be deleted... and started singing the praises of AkaSkriller. I thought this guy was a thing of the past. Nope, he has only gotten bigger.
Most people know this guy is a Fraud... he takes the work of our developers (roms, themes, free/paid apps and posts it on his site... behind a $5 donate wall ( $5/month for ACCESS to others work ).
Read some of the below posts where developers have already posted conversations with this guy.... it's sad panda time here.
Not enough, read the lashing he took trying to "apologize" *fake/lying*
Master (Axura ROM) stated that he spoke with AkaSkriller about removing his ROM and he was told he would simply edit the build.prop as to be a different ROM... as if by editing this, it was somehow no longer Master's work!! Since then, there are just more developers supporting this....
This outraged me. I truly respect ALL of our developers, and this is just ONE example of probably 100's where this guy and his site have taken advantage of those in our community who are NOT familiar.
Sooooo........
I propose we do ANOTHER #NeverAgain Twitter campaign where we send out tweets telling people to not use this guys site... we inform people the $5 "donate" for access to files is absurd... and we try and point people to sites like XDA!
A place where we are truly geared to helping our developers/community
(not to make money off noobs).
Here is his site. I only link to it so you can see just how absurd it is. DO NOT give this guy any of your money.
ACTION:
Send out a tweet about it...
Post on your Facebook about it....
Email or send a tweet to other Android sites and ask them to tweet about it....
Sample Tweet (copy and paste if you like):
Sites requiring a donation for access to others work is wrong. Read this: http://goo.gl/l7vSO
I realize some of you think this is crazy/pointless. But it bothers me to have an element like that in a community I really do love.
And yes, I have a "Donate to Me" button. Only because someone volunteered to give me a donation before I had a link.
I've received MAYBE $30... imagine how much I could make on a site like that (near 600 thanks and I am NOT a developer)!
lets play the "I see $5 this many times" game... Maybe just a "thanks button" would work? Nagh, lets make a whole section.
...
7I've reached my Thanks limit.. but truly grateful. I feel with enough social media effort we can really help.
For those not familar, my first #NeverAgain campaign was against Samsung.... shortly after, I received calls from them, they were following me on twitter and VERY soon after Froyo was given to us via kies.
my point? To my surprise, it really did work in my opinion (and others).4did someone ask for the names of all the warez on his site?
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