(Sending again keeping Aaraai in copy, he's not subscribed. Please keep people in Cc:)
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:02:20PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > Well I actually pointed Aaraai to this list (after he mailed me > directly, which is wrong because decisions are not made privately). > > So I think the program needs to be portable, and run primarily on a > free platform. If it also runs on proprietary or semi-free platforms, > then it's OK, as long as the free platforms works at least as good as > other platforms. > > The emulator is usually slower than the actual hardware, so I'd say > it's not as good as the original android platform. > > I'm not familiar with Android so I can't tell exactly how a program is > tightly coupled to the proprietary firmware, but more generally, your > program must not encourage people to use non-free software. > > -- > Sylvain > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 08:10:34AM +0200, Sebastian Gerhardt wrote: > > Hello Aaraai, > > > > > > this mailing list is mainly a read-only list where the Savannah > > system logs the messages of the item tracker. I doubt it is read by many > > people except some technical staff. > > > > I recommend to post that question on > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers-public > > where most of the public discussions about Savannah's policy take place. > > > > > > Regards, > > Sebastian > > > > > > On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 10:15 +0100, info aaraai wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I plan to develop apps and am aware of other sites that would host it. > > > But wish to get official word from you if you find it offensive to > > > host such a software if it would be for use on a platform that isn't > > > 100% free software. > > > > > > The application itself would conform to GNU/FSM requirements. > > > > > > Reference: > > > Android (google) stuff is open source platform and apps could be GNU > > > licensed. But the platform itself isn't GNU. It uses open source Linux > > > kernel with proprietary firmware support and a fat stack of Apache2 > > > licence on top of it. > > > > > > ( > > > My view: > > > #1: Like GNU software itself was developed keeping kernel development > > > independent, GNU apps for android could be allowed on your servers. > > > This might at some point of time reverse encourage using a purely open > > > platform too. > > > #2: Most apps can run on emulator that is purely open source stuff. Of > > > course Apache2. > > > ) > > > > > > Eagerly waiting to hear from you. > > > Regards, > > > Aaraai
