Mobile device developers are in a holding pattern with plans to plug in the much-awaited Google Android 3.0 upgrade. The delay is causing some bad feelings in the FOSS community. But it is unlikely that Google will carry many scars from the dispute. Claiming it needs more time to solve technical glitches, Google recently announced that it was delaying the promised release of code for Honeycomb, the Android 3.0 operating system. The delay in releasing the code has some mobile product developers worried that Google might recant and keep Honeycomb out of the open source inventory altogether.
You ARE gonna get burnt by Google, the ONLY question is when! How do I know, why do you think that Google has gone out of their way to avoid ANY and all GPL V3? Why do you think that is? Because thanks to TiVo GPL V2 might as well be BSD!
You see thanks to the "TiVo Trick" they can give you...well...anything they want, its not like you'll be able to run it on the device to see, now will you? Thanks to eFuses and code signing GPL V2 is WORTHLESS with a capital W!
So please, if you rally do believe in the four freedoms you should be moving ALL code away from GPL V2 as fast as possible! Otherwise all you have done is worked long and hard for absolutely nothing. The corps can and will take your code at ANY time, and thanks to TiVo tricking you can't do a thing about it! Who cares if you have the code if it is written for a device you can't modify or run it on?
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What Does Google Owe FOSS?
Posted by: Jack M. Germain April 19, 2011 05:00 AMMobile device developers are in a holding pattern with plans to plug in the much-awaited Google Android 3.0 upgrade. The delay is causing some bad feelings in the FOSS community. But it is unlikely that Google will carry many scars from the dispute. Claiming it needs more time to solve technical glitches, Google recently announced that it was delaying the promised release of code for Honeycomb, the Android 3.0 operating system. The delay in releasing the code has some mobile product developers worried that Google might recant and keep Honeycomb out of the open source inventory altogether.
You see thanks to the "TiVo Trick" they can give you...well...anything they want, its not like you'll be able to run it on the device to see, now will you? Thanks to eFuses and code signing GPL V2 is WORTHLESS with a capital W!
So please, if you rally do believe in the four freedoms you should be moving ALL code away from GPL V2 as fast as possible! Otherwise all you have done is worked long and hard for absolutely nothing. The corps can and will take your code at ANY time, and thanks to TiVo tricking you can't do a thing about it! Who cares if you have the code if it is written for a device you can't modify or run it on?