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What is not free in Adroid stack?

What is not free in Adroid stack?

Posted Feb 19, 2009 10:19 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Some way still to be able to use the freedoms... by tajyrink
Parent article: How (not) to brick the Android Developer Phone

I am not really interested in a phone that is hackable but by default only really usable with partially non-free software stack, so therefore (as an user) I am interested in the development of completely free software stacks.

AFAIK the only non-free parts in Android software stack are codecs - and these are not free by patent reason. Other non-free parts (like GMail client or YouTube client) are completely optional. And it's way easier to replace codecs with free ones (where legal) than to create the whole new stack. And if you'll compare number of phones with Android today with all other phones with "free software stacks"...

Usage of G1 without Android is certainly possible but unfeasible...

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