Leak Updates

This is a discussion on Leak Updates within the Droid News forums, part of the Droid News & Site News category; Originally Posted by tehpriest All this talk about breaking the locked bootloader is masking the central fact here. Ladies and Gentlemen. Android IS NOT Motorola's ...

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    08-23-2010 04:54 PM
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    Quote Originally Posted by tehpriest View Post
    All this talk about breaking the locked bootloader is masking the central fact here. Ladies and Gentlemen. Android IS NOT Motorola's operating system. This is not Symbian or W7 here. It is an Open Source OS and is governed by the GPL GNU which Motorola have conveniently found a loophole in. When the new one is enforced for Android 3 (so I am lead to understand) then they will not be able to do this.
    That would be great, but the fact is everyone has to be willing to play fair, and if all the carriers cry foul Android will be as dead as Elvis.
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    08-23-2010 10:29 PM
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    Android's linux kernel is GPL, but the userspace Apache license. The difference? the apache license allows commercial and proprietary development and restriction. so as much as everyone wants motorola to be wrong, they have every right under the android open source apache license to lock down, restrict or modify the OS without having to contribute to development of android or the android community. locked software, bootloaders, and commercial and proprietary development is not only allowed by apache but also encouraged.

    i guess the theme of the story is that the droid x is never going to have a true custom theme haha
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    08-23-2010 11:20 PM
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    Quote Originally Posted by czerdrill View Post
    Android's linux kernel is GPL, but the userspace Apache license. The difference? the apache license allows commercial and proprietary development and restriction. so as much as everyone wants motorola to be wrong, they have every right under the android open source apache license to lock down, restrict or modify the OS without having to contribute to development of android or the android community. locked software, bootloaders, and commercial and proprietary development is not only allowed by apache but also encouraged.

    i guess the theme of the story is that the droid x is never going to have a true custom theme haha
    Never say never!

    But you're probably right.
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    08-24-2010 12:36 PM
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    LOL so I guess this is the first time ever stock droid users are going to get an updated OS before us rooted users.

    Oh well. I'm just looking forward to a stock rooted frg22d rom.
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