On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Carlo Brualdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > That wasn't a justification, I don't work for Google :) > That I said is only the reality. As Google say. I agree with you, but > the facts are these. And maybe there's a reason, or there's not. I > don't know! > > > On Mar 28, 4:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am not satisfied with your justification; even if it isn't mature > > its source must be released. So that the open source community can > > enhance it more. >
You're correct that Google is approaching this in a completely inverted fashion relative to any real open source project. Android isn't open source; it's "going-to-be-open-someday" source. Google has only published the portions whose licensing requirements demanded that they do, and there's no community around the Android platform itself, other than within the Googleplex. This posting at Livejournal <http://robilad.livejournal.com/22312.html>, which also gets into some interesting aspects of the terms and conditions (which are between you and Google, and not with the "Open Handset Alliance") points out that Google will release some unspecified "most of" the Android source under the Apache license, but not until phones ship, "the second half of 2008" according to Google. Samsung, a pretty aggressive company, doesn't expect that *their *Android phone will be out before 2009, however. It's unclear what this "most of" amounts to. So, no one knows whether it'll, for instance, include Dalvik or not, or Surface Manager or not. All we know is that, so far, Google's only released what they had to, and hasn't actually engaged with the open source community on this "open source" project in any discernible way. Maybe Dan Morill, or someone like him, would liketo try to clarify this. -- 鏡石 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Internals" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-internals?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
