Maybe someday "mostly" free

Posted Nov 14, 2007 3:24 UTC (Wed) by sepreece (guest, #19270)
In reply to: Maybe someday "mostly" free by mjr
Parent article: Google Calling: Inside Android, the gPhone SDK (O'ReillyNet)

"Note the "most" language."

Um - the "most" language in the license says that most of the software will be released under
the Apache license. My assumption was that it says "most" because there are also components
(like the Linux kernel) that will be under the GPL (and possibly other open-source licenses).

Maybe someday "mostly" free

Posted Nov 14, 2007 10:49 UTC (Wed) by mjr (guest, #6979) [Link] (1 responses)

Um - the "most" language in the license says that most of the software will be released under the Apache license.

You're missing pretty much all of the relevant context. This is all in the license agreement of the proprietary SDK, not a full system. In fact it says quite clearly that most of the SDK will be (or rather, is intended to be) released under AL. The Linux kernel et al is quite apart from that.

Maybe someday "mostly" free

Posted Nov 14, 2007 17:37 UTC (Wed) by sepreece (guest, #19270) [Link]

Sorry, I missed that - yes, the statement is just about the SDK, which presumably doesn't
include Linux.

However, I still don't see any particular reason to assume evil intentions. The SDK is not the
platform - the SDK can include non-open components without affecting the openness of the APIs,
frameworks, and components of the platform. I haven't sorted through the SDK enough, yet, to
have an opinion on that.