[Konsole-devel] targeting OpenEmbedded at firmware environment on Motorola A780

[Andrew Barr]

On Monday 10 July 2006 18:22, lars.doelle at on-line.de wrote:
> I have in general absolutely no problems with any port or derivate, and
> find it even nice to learn that the konsole core runs well on phone, as
> long as people handle their licensing homework properly.

Well, it may not be legal because the EZX SDK that is out there is of 
questionable legality anyway, as has been noted on the OpenEmbedded mailing 
list. Licensing issues may be impossible to entirely resolve for native Linux 
apps on Motorola phones, but that's outside of the domain of the licensing of 
Konsole related code (or any other community source code for that matter).

> http://www.dewmill.com/filesx/qonsole_b.zip
> http://www.dewmill.com/linuxphone.html

I notice there's a few other apps there too, including VisualBoyAdvance, which 
according to the 'copyright' file on my Debian system, is also GPL. It 
doesn't look like this fellow has access to the source code changes, however, 
but he might know who does.

> I'll attempt to clarify the issue.

I do think though that a nice, polite, firm e-mail to the admins of 
motorolafans.com as a copyright holder asking them to instruct their members 
(a 'sticky' announcement perhaps) to be careful and comply with software 
licensing might do wonders. I don't think there's much malicious intent here, 
just people being sloppy and/or not realizing what their obligations are 
under the GPL and similar licenses.

I don't know that community, however, so I might be wrong.

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