[okl4-developer] openmoko, android, and "openness"

[Christopher Carfi]

thanks, benno.  anyone else have thoughts?

On Jan 6, 2008 12:56 PM, Ben Leslie <benno at ok-labs.com> wrote:

> On Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 16:37:01 -0800, Christopher Carfi wrote:
> >i saw the following message on another list to which i belong from a
> >colleague (dan miller), and was hoping that folks here might have some
> >insights as well.  dan's query:
> >
> >*"[With respect to] the prospects for an "open" wireless handset...for a
> >while OpenMoko seemed to be in the spirit of a Linux OS based platform
> >designed to appeal to a core group of developers. Then it became quasi
> >private/commercial when the Neo was introduced by a specific
> manufacturer,
> >First International Corp (FIC). They'll be at CES with a newly introduce
> GPS
> >device (DASH) that conforms to the "open" design. *
> >
> >*So I'm looking for general comments on what the important qualitative
> >differences are between Android and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) on
> the
> >one hand(set) and OpenMoko on the other."*
> >
> >does anyone here on the OKL4 list have any thoughts, links or insight
> that i
> >could pass along to dan?  benno?  anyone?
>
> In terms of 'open'-ness, I think OpenMoko is clearly ahead at the moment -
> they actually have the code to their entire stack open and available, in
> stark contrast to the Android project.
>
> As I understand it, a commitment has been made to release the full source
> code to Android some time this year.
>
> It has been said that the Android code base will be released under an
> Apache style license, compared to OpenMoko, which is mostly (L)GPL.
> I don't really want to get into the age-old debate over whether or not
> reciprocal licenses are more or less open than non-reciprocal licenses.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Benno
>



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