-Actually, the linux license only applies to linux itself, and doesn't require anything in user-space to get open-sourced.
-See http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/srec.git;a=summary Like Romain said, the entire Android platform was open-sourced. If something that ships on the G1 wasn't open-sourced, it isn't actually part of the platform. JBQ On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:50 PM, zl25drexel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (i hope i dont sound too obnoxious) > > the platform is linux based, google had no choices but open sourced > it. :-) > > To me, the apps are the interesting bits but they are not fully > opened. For example, they referenced codes/packages that were close- > sourced or missing (i.e. speech recognition ). Also, as you said, some > apps are completely missing. > > I understand there could be many reasons why they are missing, but I > think i wasnt wrong to call the code base crippled. :) > > On Nov 14, 3:11 pm, Romain Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The entire platform is open sourced. Only some Google apps (YouTube, >> Gmail, etc.) are not open sourced. >> >> What exactly do you find "crippled"? What is missing for you? >> >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:08 PM, zl25drexel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > you guys did not open-source everything. it's pretty hard to figure >> > out how things work using a cripple code base. >> >> > On Nov 13, 2:14 pm, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Nov 12, 6:38 am, zl25drexel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> > please, put that API to replace the lock screen, i will be more than >> >> > happy to use that instead of my little hack. >> >> >> Yes this would be nice to have, but at this point it is a lower >> >> priority for the core android team than a lot of other things. If >> >> this is something you really want, you could look into adding the >> >> feature to the platform. One warning though: doing complete support >> >> for replacing the lock screen is going to be really hard, because all >> >> of the security and interaction issues it deals with are quite >> >> complicated. >> >> >> > I am pretty sure toddler is also disguising asHOMEscreen because i >> >> > tried restarting the app in the onstop method, the desktop will show >> >> > up for half of a second before the app is restarted, that's clearly >> >> > not the behavior we see in toddler lock. So i think it does the same >> >> > thing. >> >> >> No, it does another trick, which the system should also protect >> >> against but is not so obviously a flaw. >> >> >> For your idea of forcing your app to be thehomescreen, look at it >> >> this way. On android, thehomekey serves as our equivalent of Ctrl >> >> +Alt+Delete for the user: it is the one thing they can press, which >> >> they are guaranteed will get them out of whatever app they are in and >> >> back to a known trusted location. By forcing yourself to be thehome >> >> screen behind the user's back, you are causing the system to violate >> >> that trust it has established with the user, stepping down the path of >> >> simply being malicious. In fact, this API should never have made it >> >> in to the platform -- as I said, this is an old approach we did to >> >> preferred applications, it completely conflicts with the current model >> >> (which allows the user to select the preferred activity for each >> >> action), and as such is a pretty big security hole. It will be >> >> removed in a future release. >> >> >> So, uh, thank-you for finding that approach, but please don't use >> >> it. :) >> >> -- >> Romain Guywww.curious-creature.org > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
