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Originally Posted by wildrage
It's like buying a laptop with Microsoft Office preloaded on it, and then somehow copying it off, and putting it on other people's laptop...it's not legal. The manufacturer, and ultimately the person who bought that laptop payed licensing fees to Microsoft, even if it wasn't expressly on the receipt.
I mean technically...every custom rom could be considered copyrite infringement to Microsoft. Granted, we all have licenses when we bought our Diamonds...but if I were to some how (if it was possbile) put one of these custom roms on a G1, it would be violating Microsoft's copyrite for Windows Mobile.
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this is true ...
But the real talk is not about an application but a Device ID change that can allow applications that otherwise would not work to work.
To go one step further, i can purchase the app and be able to use it if the device id was infact changed ...
So now if i purchase a licens for the app and use it on a diamond with a diffrent device ID does this still make it illegal? would the app creator really care since i purchased it?
Another way of looking at it is ( as posted befor ) maybe the application creator could get in trouble because the carrier paid for exclusive use of the app.. But the app creator has if for sale on their site ( even trial version ) so the exclusive is out i think