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Android opens door to IC open source (EE Times)

Posted Feb 15, 2008 21:05 UTC (Fri) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
In reply to: Android opens door to IC open source (EE Times) by bronson
Parent article: Android opens door to IC open source (EE Times)

I think there is some fuzziness about the meaning of the term "android" in the sentence
"android will be open source".  Certainly google has repeatedly and clearly said that android
will be closed-source-friendly, i.e. no licensing requirements or business pressure for
partners to open source their android-related components.

I agree, we can wait and see.  While we're waiting, maybe we can hack on the
already-open-source OpenMoko.  ;-)

Regards,

Zooko


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