On 04/11/11 11:33, Chris Stratton wrote:
On Mar 26, 4:23 am, Al Sutton<[email protected]> wrote:
Personally I think it's a mistake not releasing the code and I'm not "happy"
about it, not only because at a time when MeeGo seems to be gaining ground (even though
Nokia essentially have dropped it) and non-approved tablet manufacturers could start
moving there, but also because, given the current Gingerbread codebase, there's a lot of
open source code which Android is built on so it's going to get some peoples backs up.
Presumably actual licenses have been complied with - ie, free software
components whose licenses mandate source releases have been released,
while only those components under source-optional licenses have been
held back.
Android has a design goal of keeping source-required licenses out of
the userspace code running on the device itself, so they are mainly to
be found in the linux kernel and the toolchain.
The biggest mistake is taking it away from a lot of eyes, many times
more than a tiny development group has. That's the advantage of open
source is that you get more people looking at your code and mistakes are
more likely to be found than with closed source. I would suspect they
actually hate to miss out on the free QA.
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