[Noisebridge-discuss] google issues "cease and desist" to android developer

[Joe LaPenna]

And, in a more positive light, the Open Source Android maintainer is
working on making the public repo more usable on ADP1, is doing code
reviews left and right to merge external contributions into the
goes-on-phone internal branches and there are a good bunch of people
now interested in helping.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Evan Martin <martine at danga.com> wrote:
> Android phones = open source operating system + open source apps +
> some closed source Google apps.
>
> For example the standard "email" program (which speaks IMAP) is open
> and there's a vibrant fork of it: http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/ .
> But there's also a gmail-specific mail app that would guess isn't open
> source.
>
> Cyanogen distributed both the free and non-free bits, got a C&D for the latter.
>
> It's not clear to me why Google cares though.  I heard that the closed
> apps were unmodified.  I've heard rumors that the company that
> provides the data that makes the maps app work is especially
> protective, but don't let my mention of that in any way suggest that
> it's not just stupid policymakers at the Goog.  Speaking of stupid
> policies, see also http://jwz.livejournal.com/1096401.html .
>
> (Not speaking on behalf of employer etc.)
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Michael Shiloh
> <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> this is quite interesting and i'd love to hear your perspectives, since
>> many of you are much more knowledgeable than i am in this matter:
>>
>> "The Android programmer who goes by the handle “Cyanogen” was issued a
>> legal “Cease and Desist” order from Google’s legal team. Cyanogen is one
>> of the numerous programmers who have embraced the open source Android
>> project with vigor by downloading the Android source from the Android
>> Open Source Project’s repository and actually improved it. Did anyone
>> notice? Yes — word has it they there are over 30,000 active users of his
>> code. The problem is, Google doesn’t like it when their “closed source”
>> applications are redistributed.
>>
>> what does this all mean?
>>
>> full story:
>>
>> http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7544/1.html
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