It's pretty funny how much leeway people seem to give Google with open source licenses. The latest Android SDK has been up for at least 6 days now and it does include WebCore and JavaScriptCore which are both LGPL. Not only have they not posted the latest sources for those libraries but they removed all the old sources of those libraries from their "open source repository". Also no LGPL copyright notice is included in the SDK either. I know if Microsoft or Apple did the same thing people would scream bloody murder. Am I missing something or do people not seem to get as annoyed when Google is the violator?
I am pretty sure that the LGPL doesn't explicitly state that you can post the source code at your leisure or in sync with some other business schedule. They do say that they plan to make the project open source but in the meantime if Google is posting binaries of LGPL libraries to developers they should be releasing sources as well. I know that the Android team is hard at work and probably in crunch mode but the LGPL is a license agreement and it should be followed regardless of your other work obligations/schedules/timelines. I look forward to seeing the sources for WebKit and JavaScriptCore being posted promptly. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
