[android-beginners] Re: Should anyone be allowed to alter Android OS and Applications?

2009-09-29 Thread Fugita
Funny this is a topic that deals with something all Developers should know about. On Sep 27, 2:53 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Jeffrey Blattman wrote: the big deal is that the license does not grant the right to re-distribute. this is pretty standard for a closed source

[android-beginners] Re: Should anyone be allowed to alter Android OS and Applications?

2009-09-27 Thread Fugita
Understood but they come with the phone already so what is the big deal? It is not like CM is altering the Google Applications. He is altering the OS. On Sep 26, 10:09 pm, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: unfortunately, it's not that simple. there are parts of android dists

[android-beginners] Re: Should anyone be allowed to alter Android OS and Applications?

2009-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Blattman
the big deal is that the license does not grant the right to re-distribute. this is pretty standard for a closed source license. while it's true that most (all?) android phones come with the google apps today, there's no requirement of that and it may not be the case in the future. mr. cell

[android-beginners] Re: Should anyone be allowed to alter Android OS and Applications?

2009-09-27 Thread Mark Murphy
Jeffrey Blattman wrote: the big deal is that the license does not grant the right to re-distribute. this is pretty standard for a closed source license. while it's true that most (all?) android phones come with the google apps today, there's no requirement of that and it may not be the case

[android-beginners] Re: Should anyone be allowed to alter Android OS and Applications?

2009-09-26 Thread Jeffrey Blattman
unfortunately, it's not that simple. there are parts of android dists like CM that are not in AOSP. the google apps are a major, glaring example. their license clearly does not allow them to be re-distributed. so you can make a custom android dist, but it can't include google mail, google