And Microsoft laughs hysterically as the open-source movement -- which Microsoft could not kill -- turns on itself, and proceeds to destroy itself, shouting the ridiculous battle cry: "My Openness is better than yours! Glory to <insert-favorite-license-name-here>!".
This sort of silliness -- and it matter not who is at fault, or even if anyone is at fault with the entire licensing debacle -- is the sort of thing that proves that open-source is really no different from commercial work. It ends up just feeding the same ultimate societal leeches -- lawyers. So, putting aside my total disgust at the concept of duplication of effort (and bugs and time), and speaking as someone who wishes only to consume, not author or distribute, can anyone just post a Makefile that can pull the right code bits from the right places, and let each user build their own? Or is that illegal too? Sigh. Somebody tell me how this is any different from an iphone, again, please? (No, don't -- it was a rhetorical question.) Mike (mwester) Marcelo wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Marcelo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That doesn't clear the other problem though: rild _is_ APL2, which >> means you can't just take GPL2 code and link rild against it, dlopen >> included. > > Thinking out loud here, maybe the best way out of this is a clean room > implementation of the bits and pieces we need. To make this easier, > someone could take a look a the existing code, and provide a set of > tests that a replacement implementation has to pass to be able to > replace the existing code. > > In oder words, do a TDD/BDD implementation between to parties. One > party provides the tests and the other party provides the > implementation. > > The resulting code would be best put under the BSD license. In that > way we can use a GPLed library like the one Michael mentioned without > much worries *and* we can also contribute the code back to Google. Of > course, the resulting implementation for the Freerunner (the one using > the GPLed library) would be distributed under the GPL as a whole. > > Marcelo > _______________________________________________ > android-freerunner mailing list > [email protected] > http://android.koolu.org/listinfo.cgi/android-freerunner-koolu.org > _______________________________________________ android-freerunner mailing list [email protected] http://android.koolu.org/listinfo.cgi/android-freerunner-koolu.org
