Uhm. What were the legal considerations?
Anyway, for the future, I can suggest to protect your app under whatever Free Software license (because every Free Software license includes a strong discharge of liability, see the GNU General Public License for example) and then just release your app using F-Droid:
I hope you will solve your legal problems, if they come from the Play Store EULA.
Hello,
in 2016 I wrote a small Android app, that is making use of the
Wikipedia
ActionApi to search for articles at the current location of a user. Due to legal considerations I am currently trying to take down the
app.
It’s not available any more in the Google PlayStore, but there are
still
installations out there. That’s why I want to make these installations unusable by
deactivating
all backend services, that the app is using. Unfortunately the app is (partially) directly communicating with wikipedia servers and not via a proxy under my control. The app sends a special User-Agent HTTP header with every request to identify itself:
tagorama/v1.0.0.283-release (http://tagorama.rocks/;
info@tagorama.rocks)
Is there any way for you to block requests from this app? Who would I contact?
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