Android tablets GPL compliance summary

Posted by viraptor on Thursday December 30, 2010 @04:41PM
from the codon.org.uk dept.

http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/android_tablets/

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Re:Android tablets GPL compliance summary by viraptor on Thursday December 30, 2010 @04:45PM (#2053680)

Some more interesting comments / the page that linked to the table: http://www.advogato.org/person/mjg59/diary.html?start=283

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Re:Android tablets GPL compliance summary by ConceptDog on Thursday December 30, 2010 @05:43PM (#2053823)

Makes me feel good about picking Archos. I hope they do very well with their line of Android Tablets.

I'm looking forward to my Archos 70 that's on its way right now.

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Re:Android tablets GPL compliance summary by axod on Thursday December 30, 2010 @07:20PM (#2054008)

It's cool they're using Android now. I had one of the Archos AV300 range devices when they first came out (6 or 7 years ago?), which used their own proprietary OS which was fairly rubbish. I r/e'd most of the hardware, firmware format, encryption etc which was a heap of fun.

The founder of Archos emailed me to say he'd be suing me unless I stopped. Good times, good times :)

FWIW, unless they've drastically changed I thought Archos hardware was fairly cheap and ill thought out. Didn't seem anywhere near the quality of say Samsung or Apple.

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Re:Android tablets GPL compliance summary by Raphael on Thursday December 30, 2010 @08:35PM (#2054192)

What is r/e'd?

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Re:Android tablets GPL compliance summary by metageek on Thursday December 30, 2010 @08:44PM (#2054216)

I never heard it, either; but, from context, it seems to mean "reverse engineered".

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Re:Android tablets GPL compliance summary by phlee on Thursday December 30, 2010 @11:24PM (#2054503)

Where is the iPed? Is that the same thing as APad, which is listed?

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