vince_at_iode

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by vince_at_iode 4y ago
This depends on the devices. Some of them like pixel and fairphone ones allow bootloader relocking, lineage supports this, and iodé too. I think that when people make the transition to a custom rom, they often don't care about that bec
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by vince_at_iode 4y ago
I don't see well the point in this remark. Releasing free software has many consequences, and among them, one is to give freedom to people. Giving freedom to people is however the starting point of our story: we wanted to give the free
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by vince_at_iode 4y ago
No, it wasn't! We explained the reasons in many places (forums etc), and people were free to trust us or not. We also promised to open the sources when we thought it was the good timing, and that's what we did. And I completely ag
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by vince_at_iode 4y ago
Yes that's weird ;-) Especially from me: I began working on android by building a GSI, maybe you remember, we've been in touch on a few issues. The problem is: lack of time, always something else to do that we consider of higher p
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by vince_at_iode 4y ago
The smallest phones we support are the samsung A5, sony XA2, fairphone FP3 (although a bit thick). Although they are a bit outdated now, they can be sufficient for certain usages. We would like a lot to support recent small phones, but the
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by vince_at_iode 4y ago
As answered in another comment, there is not just one license, there are plenty of licenses, in each repository we published. Most of them are forks of AOSP / lineage repositories, and keep their original licenses, and some of them are
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by vince_at_iode 4y ago
There are dozens of repository, starting from here: https://gitlab.com/iode/os Licenses are at the root of each one. Our policy is the following: - for existing repositories that we fork (the vast majority of them), we
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by vince_at_iode 4y ago
sorry for you :-)
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by vince_at_iode 4y ago
This is a big list in our point of vue. We began with one device, then added a second one, then a third... We go step by step, for the devices and in our software developments, and are not in a hurry to satisfy all the wishes of everyone. P
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by vince_at_iode 4y ago
Yes we use microG and all our supported phones actually pass SafetyNet. It seems that some banking apps still don't work, but most of them yes. We wanted to follow our own road. Isn't diversity a good thing for people? Which does