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Except that a software license can hardly be called open source if you require a contract from the writer in order to use the software.
by chris_mahan 14y ago
Except that a software license can hardly be called open source if you require a contract from the writer in order to use the software.
- ajross 14y agoThis is backwards. Google's closed apps aren't open source. Acer needs a license to use them. Alibaba can use whatever it wants, they just can't get Acer to manufacture a device containing their (closed-source!) modifications to Android without putting Acer's existing software licenses in jeopardy. If Alibaba's product can't reach market, then that's a problem. But given that many unlicensed Android-derived devices are in production right now, I don't see the problem. They picked the wrong OEM (or Acer misjudged its relationship with Google, or both). Oops.