by a stroke of luck i was reading this new article: http://lwn.net/Articles/355523/ (subscriber-only, non-subscriber wait till next week) Inside it was talking about how Google have to shutdown Cyanogen for redistributing proprietary modification of the Android distribution. http://lwn.net/Articles/354308/ http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Michael Blizek <michi1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > On 10:06 Tue 13 Oct , Peter Teoh wrote: >> yes, i am confused too.....look at this: >> >> http://source.android.com/posts/opensource >> >> which clearly says that is open-source. and it is a "full-stack", >> the bottom layer being the linux kernel (which is described in >> detailed diagram here: >> >> http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html >> >> take a look. any hardware which can run linux kernel, will have android. >> >> in general.....any legal aspect is out of our scope here (i am not >> legally trained)...but open-source in the sense all the source codes >> are available :-). so yes, almost any source code is > > Legally, you can call it open source. But what I am saying is that it is not > open source in the way people expect it: > yes, u are right.....one typical application in Android which is closed-source is Google maps!!!! (after reading the above article) -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
