"Google's code" is a little vague, though. You can use the code for Android (which the Fire indeed does), you just can't use Google's first-party apps.
Are you sure? This license covers the SDK, not the first-party apps. At the very least, this agreement could prevent them from adding any Kindle-specific extensions to the API.
(This point is a bit moot because the Fire codebase was presumably forked from an older version of Android without this license change.)
This point isn't moot at all. One of the first things Amazon tells Kindle Fire developers to do when setting up their development environment is download the Android SDK:
To me, the real issue I have with the SDK anti-fragmentation clause is that I have no idea what it means.
Does it mean you can't develop for the Kindle Fire, Nook, Nabi et al using it? Or is it OK if your apps still work on Google devices as well? Does that mean Amazon can't use the SDK when working on the Kindle Fire OS? Or is that fine too as long as the OS passes the associated compatibility tests (and, reportedly, Amazon has been very good with compatibility to date)? And so on.
And whatever the bizarre restrictions are how in the world is Google even dreaming of enforcing them? Or are they just planning to complete with Microsoft and Oracle for the "most pirated development tools ever" prize?
