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Extracting the Google Android 'Droid' Font

Courtesy of Benno who tarballed the actual Android files and Wired for the inspiration we hacked out Google Android's standard font: "Droid".

For those of you interested it's (offcourse) available for download.

Google avoids Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions using Dalvik

Stefano Mazzocchi has written a nice article about how Google routed around Sun's IP-based GPL license on Java ME.

Today Google released the Android code and I took a serious look at its internals... and found the solution for the licensing problem. It's called Dalvik and it's the new name of Sun's worst nightmares.

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