Where do Apps Come From?

So if we take this as read. Is there an explanation as to how /e/ has a license from say Nintendo or Netflix to residistribute their applications? Or is this an admission that /e/ does so without consent or license?

Even if the app is distributed for no charge. Its not actually legal to redistribute it without a license to do so. Free & Open source software bakes the right to redistribute into a license that it grants to everyone who recieves the program; but this isn’t true for proprietary applications like Netflix.

EDIT: I mean this isn’t something im spinning, this is well known and established. It’s why the Ouya didn’t ship Netflix and users had to sideload it. It’s why Youtube has been sideloaded by Amazon Kindle users in years past. These companies would happily have ripped the relevant APKs and redistributed them if it were legal to do so. But it was not.

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