On Friday 13 November 2009 10:15:43 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 01:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > My new! improved! shiny! Android phone has a Gmail app. It's nice to use > > but it's quoting style is horrible and looks thusly: > > Isn't Android "supposed" to be Open Source?
The kernel is Linux so it's OSS and so are most of the APIs. License is GPL. The user-space apps are not necessarily GPL though (just like on the desktop) and I haven't seen the code for the GMail app > What's to stop you from > fixing the code yourself and recompiling, Apart from "I really can't be bothered so I'll download something else" nothing stops me :-) > or does that somehow > "invalidate" your phone? It's not an iPhone and Apple's psychosis doesn't enter the picture, I can install any user-space app I feel like. The warranty is already invalid though, for a different reason - I flashed it with an OS and firmware that's far superior to the one my carrier thinks I should have :-) > Also could they have picked a less masculine-sounding name (perhaps the > HTC Twilight)? The OS versions are cupcake, donut and eclair. Faced with that, HTC's names for the hardware seem somewhat irrelevant <hehehe> -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
