[LUG.ro] Android Liberado

[Omar Arino]

El día 22 de octubre de 2008 12:13, Martín Carr <tincarr en gmail.com> escribió:
>
> así que será libre pero si firmás un contrato donde dice que ellos
> pueden hacer lo que quieran.... Como las cláusulas de picasa, ayer las
> leí... y no acepté...
>

Para tirar luces sobre el tema, estuve buscando la licencia con que se libera
Android y es la Apache 2.0, salvo algunos programas que van con licencia
GPL 2 (kernel de linux).
El tema en cuestión es que la gente de google esta permitiendo la descarga
de los fuentes, pero la licencia Apache no obliga a quien modifique o genere
los ejecutables a poner de alcance público los fuentes, es más creo que hasta
podría pasar lo mismo que paso con Tivo.

Acá está el texto de la página donde explican la licencia de Android:

Licenses
The Android Open Source Project uses a few open source initiative
approved open source licenses to enable availability of source code
and to accept contributions from individuals and corporations.

Android Open Source Project license

The preferred license for the Android Open Source Project is Apache
2.0. Apache 2.0 is a commercial and open source friendly open source
license. The majority of the Android platform is licensed under the
Apache 2.0 license. While the project will strive to adhere to the
preferred license, there may be exceptions which will be handled on a
case-by-case basis. For example, the Linux kernel patches are under
the GPLv2 license with system exceptions, which can be found on
kernel.org .

http://source.android.com/license

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Contributor License Grants

All individual contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to the
Android Open Source Project will be required to complete, sign, and
submit an Individual Contributor License Grant. The grant can be
executed online through the code review tool. The agreement clearly
defines the terms under which intellectual property has been
contributed to the Android Open Source Project.  This license is for
your protection as a contributor as well as the protection of the
project; it does not change your rights to use your own contributions
for any other purpose.

For a corporation that has assigned employees to work on the Android
Open Source Project, a Corporate Contributor License Grant is
available. This version of the Grant allows a corporation to authorize
contributions submitted by its designated employees and to grant
copyright and patent licenses. Note that a Corporate Contributor
License Grant does not remove the need for any developer to sign their
own Individual Contributor License Grant as an individual, to cover
any of their contributions which are not owned by the corporation
signing the Corporate Contributor License Grant.

Please note that we based our grants on the ones that the Apache
Software Foundation uses, which can be found on its site.
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Este es el FAQ de la licencia APACHE 2.0

I'm not a lawyer. What does it all MEAN?

Describing legal documents in non-legalese is fraught with potential
for misinterpretation. Notwithstanding the text that follows, the
actual text of the license itself is legally binding and
authoritative.

That said, here's what the Apache license says in layman's terms:

It allows you to:

    * freely download and use Apache software, in whole or in part,
for personal, company internal, or commercial purposes;
    * use Apache software in packages or distributions that you create.

It forbids you to:

    * redistribute any piece of Apache-originated software without
proper attribution;
    * use any marks owned by The Apache Software Foundation in any way
that might state or imply that the Foundation endorses your
distribution;
    * use any marks owned by The Apache Software Foundation in any way
that might state or imply that you created the Apache software in
question.

It requires you to:

    * include a copy of the license in any redistribution you may make
that includes Apache software;
    * provide clear attribution to The Apache Software Foundation for
any distributions that include Apache software.

It does not require you to:

    * include the source of the Apache software itself, or of any
modifications you may have made to it, in any redistribution you may
assemble that includes it;
    * submit changes that you make to the software back to the Apache
Software Foundation (though such feedback is encouraged).

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Acá está el link con el contrato para contribuir:

http://source.android.com/license/individual-contributor-license---android-open-source-project

(el cual todavía no pude leer en profundidad).

Omar