El día 22 de octubre de 2008 12:13, Martín Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > así que será libre pero si firmás un contrato donde dice que ellos > pueden hacer lo que quieran.... Como las cláusulas de picasa, ayer las > leí... y no acepté... >
Para tirar luces sobre el tema, estuve buscando la licencia con que se libera Android y es la Apache 2.0, salvo algunos programas que van con licencia GPL 2 (kernel de linux). El tema en cuestión es que la gente de google esta permitiendo la descarga de los fuentes, pero la licencia Apache no obliga a quien modifique o genere los ejecutables a poner de alcance público los fuentes, es más creo que hasta podría pasar lo mismo que paso con Tivo. Acá está el texto de la página donde explican la licencia de Android: Licenses The Android Open Source Project uses a few open source initiative approved open source licenses to enable availability of source code and to accept contributions from individuals and corporations. Android Open Source Project license The preferred license for the Android Open Source Project is Apache 2.0. Apache 2.0 is a commercial and open source friendly open source license. The majority of the Android platform is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. While the project will strive to adhere to the preferred license, there may be exceptions which will be handled on a case-by-case basis. For example, the Linux kernel patches are under the GPLv2 license with system exceptions, which can be found on kernel.org . http://source.android.com/license ------------------------------------------------ Contributor License Grants All individual contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to the Android Open Source Project will be required to complete, sign, and submit an Individual Contributor License Grant. The grant can be executed online through the code review tool. The agreement clearly defines the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to the Android Open Source Project. This license is for your protection as a contributor as well as the protection of the project; it does not change your rights to use your own contributions for any other purpose. For a corporation that has assigned employees to work on the Android Open Source Project, a Corporate Contributor License Grant is available. This version of the Grant allows a corporation to authorize contributions submitted by its designated employees and to grant copyright and patent licenses. Note that a Corporate Contributor License Grant does not remove the need for any developer to sign their own Individual Contributor License Grant as an individual, to cover any of their contributions which are not owned by the corporation signing the Corporate Contributor License Grant. Please note that we based our grants on the ones that the Apache Software Foundation uses, which can be found on its site. ------------------------------------------------ Este es el FAQ de la licencia APACHE 2.0 I'm not a lawyer. What does it all MEAN? Describing legal documents in non-legalese is fraught with potential for misinterpretation. Notwithstanding the text that follows, the actual text of the license itself is legally binding and authoritative. That said, here's what the Apache license says in layman's terms: It allows you to: * freely download and use Apache software, in whole or in part, for personal, company internal, or commercial purposes; * use Apache software in packages or distributions that you create. It forbids you to: * redistribute any piece of Apache-originated software without proper attribution; * use any marks owned by The Apache Software Foundation in any way that might state or imply that the Foundation endorses your distribution; * use any marks owned by The Apache Software Foundation in any way that might state or imply that you created the Apache software in question. It requires you to: * include a copy of the license in any redistribution you may make that includes Apache software; * provide clear attribution to The Apache Software Foundation for any distributions that include Apache software. It does not require you to: * include the source of the Apache software itself, or of any modifications you may have made to it, in any redistribution you may assemble that includes it; * submit changes that you make to the software back to the Apache Software Foundation (though such feedback is encouraged). --------------------------------------------- Acá está el link con el contrato para contribuir: http://source.android.com/license/individual-contributor-license---android-open-source-project (el cual todavía no pude leer en profundidad). Omar _______________________________________________ Lugro mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugro.org.ar/mailman/listinfo/lugro
