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They are legally required to release the kernel code. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_L

• songzme 13y ago
  Okay, Thank you for all your help in helping me understand. From what I understand, this article was written by a clueless writer that wanted to jump on the 'glass' bandwagon. He falsely claimed that google released glass source code when what Google actually released was kernel code that means nothing to developers and it was code that Google was legally required to release. Instead of letting this article die off, some people in HN were equally clueless and upvoted this article because of the misleading title. They upvoted either without reading the article, or read the article and did not have the technical ability to detect the bullshit. This article should not be trending on the front page.
  • jacobparker 13y ago
    Saying that the release means nothing to developers is probably more of an exaggeration than the headline in question. Even if it is legally required it is still interesting that it has been done for those who are following the device. I'm guessing the code release contains drivers etc. specific to the device, which would be very useful for hacking. (Note also that they explain that the entire stack's code wasn't released early in the article.)