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Are the additional terms for licensing Chrome beyond what was already needed for OEMs to get the Play Store? Unless there are and they're onerous in particularly new way, this feels like a non-issue getting attention because the business agreements around Android are relatively public compared to other OSes.

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>this feels like a non-issue getting attention because the business agreements around Android are relatively public compared to other OSes.

Are they? Where can we see them?

The page at [1] about the Open Handset Alliance contains a lot of noise about openness etc. but there are no details of the agreements or how much it actually costs for a Google apps license.

I remember everyone was surprised when Google forced Acer to pull phones based on Aliyun OS because of the OHA agreement, which IIRC, is under NDA and secrecy.

[1] http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_overview.html

What has to do OHA with Google Apps?

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