{"id":1251,"date":"2009-09-28T14:49:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2009-09-29T19:35:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T17:35:33","slug":"open-android-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/open-android-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Android Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyanogenmod.com\/\">cyanogenmod<\/a> made one of the most popular 3rd party <a href=\"http:\/\/www.android.com\/\">Android <\/a>ROMs for HTC devices. Personally I haven&#8217;t yet tried it on my <a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/07\/14\/my-htc-magic-review\/\">Magic<\/a>, but friends tell me it&#8217;s <em>the <\/em>ROM to use.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1252\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"Android\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/android_vector-thumb.gif\" alt=\"Android\" width=\"245\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/android_vector-thumb.gif 245w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/android_vector-thumb-150x48.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On September 24th 2009, <a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2009\/09\/hacks\/cyanogenmod-in-trouble\/\">Google sets their legal team on the ROM creator<\/a>, asking him to stop distributing the parts of Android that aren&#8217;t open source but in fact are good old traditional closed source apps &#8211; made by Google. Cyanogen himself (Steve Kondik) responded something in the spirit that since the ROM only runs on hardware that already runs the apps users already have a license to use them. <a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2009\/09\/news\/google-responds-to-cyanogenmod-controversy\/\">Google responded<\/a>, saying they protect the Google Phone Experience.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cease_and_desist\">C&amp;D <\/a>act triggered a huge reaction in the Android communities as people suddenly became aware of the fact that A) parts of the Android core OS aren&#8217;t at all open (source) and B) Google is not the cuddly Teddy Bear we all want it to be.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/xda-developers.com\/\">xda-developers.com <\/a>front, where a lot of the custom ROMs are being discussed and users of them hang out, they created the <a href=\"http:\/\/openandroidalliance.com\/\">Open Android Alliance <\/a>with the intent of creating a <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/open-android-alliance\/\">completely open source Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In another end and indepedently of the xda-developers it seems, lots of participants in the google group <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/android-platform\">android-platform<\/a> pretty much decided the same thing but they rather started out discussing exactly what would be needed to do and what code there is and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, both camps have been made aware of each other and there have been expressed intents of joining into a single effort. I don&#8217; t think such subtleties matter much, but we just might see the beginning of a more open more free Android project getting started here. I&#8217;ll certainly be interested in seeing where this is going&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Updated: they now have their own domain. Link in article updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past: cyanogenmod made one of the most popular 3rd party Android ROMs for HTC devices. Personally I haven&#8217;t yet tried it on my Magic, but friends tell me it&#8217;s the ROM to use. On September 24th 2009, Google sets their legal team on the ROM creator, asking him to stop distributing the parts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/open-android-alliance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open Android Alliance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[168,128,421,225,19],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-floss","tag-android","tag-legal","tag-linux","tag-mobile-phones","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}