Marcelo wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Crane, Matthew <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The git repository says last change 2 weeks ago, will the recent (and much >> apreciated) fixes be commited there eventually? Thanks, > > As you point out, that source is not publicly available. There's not > much we can't do about it. > > Marcelo
This seems to be a "cultural" thing with Android, I guess. First (and consistently) it was Google. Then Sean with the closed-source. I know we've encouraged Michael to share his excellent (and very appreciated) work with the community -- and I know that he has bandwidth considerations, as well as personal time and effort considerations in publishing that source. The problem from my point-of-view is that in the open-source community, publishing your sources is part of the process, and it concerns me that everyone I know has been working with Android seems to publish sources more like D-Link, Linksys, and other vendors, rather than publishing source code simultaneously with binaries. And if bandwidth and time is a problem, then the Open-Source solution is to publish ONLY the sources. There are many of us in the community with enough Linux horsepower to build images; we don't need images, we need the sources. Just my opinion - I fully support opensource, I am willing to help in all sorts of ways, assuming a project _REALLY_ is opensource. (And I despise licenses and lawyers.) I encourage Michael to please make it a priority to put up a GIT repo on one of the many community git sites, and share his sources with us. And if not, I'd like to understand why that can't be done. -Mike (mwester) _______________________________________________ android-freerunner mailing list [email protected] http://android.koolu.org/listinfo.cgi/android-freerunner-koolu.org
