[openmoko-announce] Free Your Phone

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl
Sat Jan 20 22:03:17 CET 2007


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Dave Crossland schreef:
> On 20/01/07, Simon <simon80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is there any code that would be running on the phone that won't be
>> FOSS (ie. GPS daemon/driver )?  If so, how easy will it be to find out
>> which code is closed-source, and how dependent would the phone's
>> functionality be on the closed-source code?
> 
> This is the first thing I asked; you hit the nail on the head with the
> GPS daemon. That's the only thing, apparently, and so only the GPS
> functionality would depend on that daemon being there. Ideally just
> 'apt-get remove --purge'ing it away won't break anything...

Especially since there is not apt or dpkg on the device.

regards,

Koen

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