[Noisebridge-discuss] google issues "cease and desist" to android developer

[Michael Shiloh]

this is quite interesting and i'd love to hear your perspectives, since 
many of you are much more knowledgeable than i am in this matter:

"The Android programmer who goes by the handle “Cyanogen” was issued a 
legal “Cease and Desist” order from Google’s legal team. Cyanogen is one 
of the numerous programmers who have embraced the open source Android 
project with vigor by downloading the Android source from the Android 
Open Source Project’s repository and actually improved it. Did anyone 
notice? Yes — word has it they there are over 30,000 active users of his 
code. The problem is, Google doesn’t like it when their “closed source” 
applications are redistributed.

what does this all mean?

full story:

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7544/1.html