Question: Is adb really governed by the android sdk license?

[xaverdh]

Setting programs.adb.enable = true atm requires accepting the android sdk license.
Is that really necessary?
At least the code at https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/adb/
appears to be under the apache license.

[xaverdh]

Ah ok. The programs.adb option actually includes androidenv.androidPkgs_9_0.platform-tools, which explains the license. Maybe this should be documented?

[primeos]

Yeah, that's a bit unfortunate, the source-code is actually free but Google's Android SDK is sadly proprietary.

https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools:

The binaries for the Android SDK downloadable from Google have a proprietary license but the source code is free software so Debian is packaging it.

And AFAIK (didn't check the latest changes) we still don't build the components from the source-code (that would be great but unfortunately it's pretty difficult and AFAIK only Debian attempts to build them from the source-code).

[xaverdh]

Hmm, maybe adb should be added here then? Just to document, that it should probably be built from source..

[primeos]

@xaverdh good idea, I've created an issue for this with some information from my failed attempts (never got that far, it's probably pretty time consuming as we're missing a lot of tooling/abstractions for it): #75603.