Sorry
Mike (mwester) wrote:
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)
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I will put the repository on the net. I don't have bandwith and time, I
must ask :).
I have a cupcake ready to use and I post all my change on it.
Michael
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