Re: Project Halium : collaboration on common android base
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:42 AM, JBB wrote:
> ... they are external kernel modules from android, not included in the kernel
That still sounds like a GPL violation unless you aren't distributing
the modules, just having an install script that users run to download
them from AOSP or elsewhere, for example like firmwares_nonfree from
here:
https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile#software-firmware
> This mainlining by Sony is mostly not complete enough to run a complete system (including graphics, sound etc.). Even with freedreno, it's not complete enough, as we want to have gps, camera and many sensors working.
Sure, but it illustrates that not all vendors are horrible wrt
mainline and reaching out to more of them would be a good idea.
In addition, the Sony work is ongoing, they added support for more
devices in 2016:
https://developer.sonymobile.com/2016/12/29/open-devices-2016-new-supported-devices-improved-camera-and-more/
> For better understanding of our stack, I’ll include a graphic showing it:
Thanks for that.
> I would like to know if you would be interested in providing user interfaces like plasma-mobile or enlightenment into your debian repositories.
I suggest joining the Debian KDE/Qt team to help get plasma-mobile into Debian:
https://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/
Enlightenment is already available in Debian but the team isn't very
active, so it would need to be revived:
https://wiki.debian.org/PkgE
For other packages that need adding (such as libhybris), see this:
https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
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bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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