On 01.08.2014 12:12, Torsten Grote wrote:
On Thursday 31 July 2014 17:56:32 Carsten Agger wrote:
Which apps are under a proprietary license? The "About" section in the settings doesn't list any proprietary licenses at all. Only "Open source" licenses, mainly Apache and GPL.
Proprietary software usually does not require a license to be shipped with it to end-users and only sometimes you have an EULA.
When looking for proprietary software in our phone, looking for licenses will not get you very far. You have to look at the software itself.
Most of the apps that my script removes [1] are non-free. Still, in order to have a working device, some non-free apps and other modifications to the Android user land are required.
The sources for the Linux kernel are also incomplete [2] in possible violation of its GPLv2 license. This is one of the things that prevents us to build better and newer versions of Android for the Fairphone ourselves.
Kind Regards, Torsten
[1] https://github.com/grote/fairphone-barebone/blob/master/freephone.sh
[2] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2636257
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The fairphone launcher seems to be free software[1], but all third party programms are be nonfree, as long the corresponding source code is not released. I did not try to build those programs from source.