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date: 2013-01-03T16:22:00+00:00
title: Replicant 4.0 SDK release
authors: Paul Kocialkowski
tags: Replicant SDK release, Paul Kocialkowski
---
It was brought to our attention that the Android SDK is now being released
under an overall proprietary software license. In the past, we already had to
release a free software SDK, back in Replicant 2.2 times, because the Android
SDK was shipping with the non-free Google APIs. More recent SDK updates made
these APIs only plug-ins that weren't shipped with the SDK and it was made
clear that these components were non-free while all the license files we could
find on the Android SDK package were free software licenses.

However now Google decided to put an overall non-free license for the SDK,
which brings back the need of having a fully free Replicant SDK. Since our
only SDK release is getting old (it was API level 8), we built an SDK package
from Replicant 4.0 sources, that is API level 15.

You can download the SDK from the [ReplicantSDK][1] page, find an
[installation and usage guide][2] as well as the [build instructions][3] on
the wiki.

 [1]: <http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantSDK>

 [2]: <http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/SDK>

 [3]: <http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/SDKBuild>