On 01.08.2014 12:12, Torsten Grote wrote: > On Thursday 31 July 2014 17:56:32 Carsten Agger wrote: >> Which apps are under a proprietary license? The "About" section >> in the settings doesn't list any proprietary licenses at all. >> Only "Open source" licenses, mainly Apache and GPL. > > Proprietary software usually does not require a license to be > shipped with it to end-users and only sometimes you have an EULA. > > When looking for proprietary software in our phone, looking for > licenses will not get you very far. You have to look at the > software itself. > > Most of the apps that my script removes [1] are non-free. Still, in > order to have a working device, some non-free apps and other > modifications to the Android user land are required. > > The sources for the Linux kernel are also incomplete [2] in > possible violation of its GPLv2 license. This is one of the things > that prevents us to build better and newer versions of Android for > the Fairphone ourselves. > > Kind Regards, Torsten > > [1] > https://github.com/grote/fairphone-barebone/blob/master/freephone.sh > > [2] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2636257 > _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing > list [email protected] > https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion >
The fairphone launcher seems to be free software[1], but all third party programms are be nonfree, as long the corresponding source code is not released. I did not try to build those programs from source. [1] https://github.com/Kwamecorp/Fairphone _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
