Gphone isn't open, linux dev not possible

Festival.Star festival.star at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 14 20:34:13 CET 2007


Yeah that is true but Googles saying:

"Over time, more of the code that makes up Android will be released, but
at this point, we have been concentrating on shipping an SDK that helps
application developers get started. In short: Stay tuned."

But what does "over time" mean, that can be 2 months but also 2 years.
So at the moment it is definetly NOT open.

William Voorhees schrieb:
> upon further inspection it looks like your right, though I am still
> hopeful based upon this entry in the FAQ.
>
> http://code.google.com/android/kb/licensingandoss.html
>
> Assuming that this is true, it only strengthens the case of the  Neo
> 1973 and openmoko project. If the 850mhz issue resolved, I'll be
> buying one. The ability to run various linux based platforms on the
> Neo 1973 device is great. Furthermore this offers great opportunities
> for porting the openmoko platform to any of the android based phones
> that should be coming out in the next year. They will already have a
> working kernel, etc.
>
> -Will
>
> On Nov 14, 2007 11:55 AM, Martin Kirchgessner
> <martin.kirchgessner at orego.fr> wrote:
>   
>> 2007/11/14, William Voorhees <will.voorhees at gmail.com>:
>>     
>>> that's what I thought, till I found this:
>>>
>>> http://git.android.com/
>>>
>>> -WIll
>>>
>>>       
>> Don't be fooled it's only the kernel sources: they have to publish
>> them, as required by the GPL. What about the libs sources? The VM?
>>
>> Marty
>>
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