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by radley 5734 days ago
They'll only sue you if you try to make money of it:

"If You engage in the commercial distribution or importation of software derived from an open source project or if You make or use such software outside the scope of creating such software code, You do not benefit from this promise for such distribution or for these other activities...

Software is deemed to be commercially distributed within the meaning of this promise when the distributor derives revenues in connection with the distribution, such as from subscriptions, updates, or user-based connection fees or from services that are contractually required for a customer to obtain the current version and/or updates of the software product in question."

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Oh so the pledge was always worthless. You are right.
Open-source means non-commercial now?
The never said that open source means non-commercial. They said that above and beyond being open source this promise only applies to these situations.
> Software is deemed to be commercially distributed

But doesn't the software come free with the phones?