Android Rovergauge II

[WinstonWolf]

Is this still being developed? It looked very interesting...

[rigga]

Think he canned it

[glow worm]

It's a real shame

[aide]

WinstonWolf said:

Is this still being developed? It looked very interesting...

Hello,

Due to licensing complications the freely availiable Android release can't go ahead.

Some of the source code is used elsewhere and I can't, unfairly, release it as open source.

The Android implementation works really well.

If the 14cux open source library was released under LGPL there could be a possible way to release the Android implementation in such a way that everyone's concerns remain intact.

Gosh, I read The Cathedral and the Bazaar fifteen years ago as an eager undergraduate for fun!

Aide

[cmb]

I'm the author of libcomm14cux (the open source 14CUX library mentioned above), and I just want to clear things up in case there's any confusion.

libcomm14cux is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This means that other software can use libcomm14cux code, but the source code for that software must be made freely available. It is totally permissible to either sell or give away software that is based on GPL code, as long as the new source code is made available for free.

Those are the main points, but there's a lot more detail in this FAQ for anyone that's interested:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html

--Colin

[davep]

cmb said:

I'm the author of libcomm14cux (the open source 14CUX library mentioned above), and I just want to clear things up in case there's any confusion.

libcomm14cux is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This means that other software can use libcomm14cux code, but the source code for that software must be made freely available. It is totally permissible to either sell or give away software that is based on GPL code, as long as the new source code is made available for free.

Those are the main points, but there's a lot more detail in this FAQ for anyone that's interested:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html

--Colin

So it all boils down to whether Aide wants to publish Android RoverGauge and allow all his source code for the application to be freely available under the GPL license, or not?

[cmb]

davep said:

So it all boils down to whether Aide wants to publish Android RoverGauge and allow all his source code for the application to be freely available under the GPL license, or not?

Yes. He could distribute his software for free or he could sell it -- but the GPL says that in either case, his source code would need to be made available for free. The license also allows anyone else to make derivative works from his source, provided that they also adhere to the same license restrictions. The terms of the GPL are communicative in that way.