On Sep 25, 7:16 pm, Zanshin <[email protected]> wrote:
> It does, in fact, mean they can't make custom ROMs. The Google apps
> are part of the core authentication and sign-in framework. Without
> those, the Android platform doesn't work.
Not true. I'm running Android, built from the open source tree, on my
Openmoko Freerunner without any of the proprietary Google apps. See
http://code.google.com/p/android-on-freerunner/ for more info.
> The protection from modification of the google apps' source is the
> same it is for Google's repository: it's public. You simply don't
> download from a source you don't trust. That's a bad argument.
I don't understand what your saying here. The Google apps in question
are closed source. Cyanogen presumably had to extract the apks from a
phone in order to include them in his distribution.
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