On Friday 23 November 2007, AVee wrote: > On Thursday 22 November 2007 10:56, Shaul Kedem wrote: > > Hi, > > One of his ways out of this is "Google releasing the source and > > someone else compiling for ARMv4." now google said they will open the > > source (they have no choice, its GPLv2) so I'd wait and see what > > happens, > > <rant> > It's not GPLv2 until they actually release it under that license, until now > they seem to release only the part they absolutely have to. > I am pretty sure Google is not going to release anything allowing anyone to > run Android on a actual phone until the first official Android phone has > had it's head-start. They will do so to allow their 'partners' a head > start, they need to do this to keep them on board. After all, why join a > consortium when everybody else gets the same thing? There are some > companies in that consortium with notoriously bad track records when it > comes to open-source, they did not just change overnight just because > Google told them to. First the partners will get to reap Android, after > that maybe the community will get something. Welcome to open-source the > Google way.
Quite actually, the Apache license permits these companies to not contribute back, so I am afraid it will be just 'business as usual' for Android. What is more interesting is Android vm on top of Openmoko and Qtopia. Just like you can run java apps on your desktop. The real challenge is the integration and making those android apps have the same general look and feel consistency with the rest of the gui. -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
