Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ok, fuck this crap. This was the main reason to prefer Android over iOS. Going to start trying out some of the FOSS Android forks
nlgranger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Google has stopped releasing parts of android as open source and it releases some as a code dump without the modification history to make harder to use. Android forks are going to struggle to keep up.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I wonder if any and everyone who has ever contributed code under whichever open license was used could sue the tits off google, not as a class, but thousands upon thousands of individual lawsuits, for breach of terms of said licence/contract.
nlgranger@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
GNU only stipulates that the code must be released. Whether it is as an inconvenient dump of a well structured code history is not specified.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m just skimming through the license on my phone and they include LGPL, apache, BSD, Mozilla public license, eclipse public license, w3c, MIT, apple, and GNu.
IANAPOLL (The extra POL is for patent or licensing) so I don’t know the intricacies of each type.
But there are a lot.