My favorite iPhone OS

This beautiful piece of opinionated hyperbole comes courtesy of the great Dr.Arthur. Android on the iphone is awesome, finally a reason to grab one of them.

Android on iPhone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJj0kHQgC9w

http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/
http://www.idroidproject.org/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• iphone
• os
• android
• linux
• kdenlive
• kodak
• zi6

[BubbIeGun]

android is not linux

[arthursucks]

@BubbIeGun

Since when?

[BubbIeGun]

@arthursucks ok, android uses a modified version of the linux kernel, but android is neither published under the BSD/GPL licence nor GPL in general. There is no Copyleft and your not able to acess the glibc. you just cant see under the hood. only the kernel is Linux, the rest is just proprietary software. remember the kernel ist not the os. btw, sry for my bad english.

[arthursucks]

@BubbIeGun

Android is under the GPL2 and Apache2 license.  You can get the source from the public git: android.git.kernel(dot)org. Where are you getting your information from?

[BubbIeGun]

@arthursucks false. the Linux kernel is under GPLv2, and Android is under Apache2 (source.android(dot)com/ source/ licenses.html). Its 2 n the morning, so im going to bed now, but im sure were talking tomorrow xD.

[arthursucks]

@BubbIeGun

How is what I said false? You said it was not open source, the Apache2 license is recognized by the OSI.

[MocoPoloX]

@BubbIeGun It has both licences. The licences do not apply both on the system as a whole but on parts of it. The patches on the Linux kernel they made are under GPLv2 (they can't change that fact). However, the rest of their code is under Apache2.

You have to know that Linux is not an OS but a kernel. Thus, android can never be Linux, nor any destribution out there...

Apachev2 is an OPEN SOURCE licence without copyleft, but you have the right to modify and distribute. It's not proprietary.

[BubbIeGun]

@arthursucks no, i didnt say android was not open source, i said ardroid is not linux. and i ment its false to say android is under GPLv2 AND Apache2. GPLv2 forces you to copyleft, which means, if you modify the source code and publish it, your "product" has to be under GPL too. But Apache2 does not. Here is an intresting artikle about android/linux: arstechnica(dot)com/open-sourc­e/reviews/2009/02/an-introduct­ion-to-google-android-for-deve­lopers.ars

[thriftytnerd]

@eduardoc The iphone hardware is solid, nice responsive touch screen,and with the current upgrade cycle of 1 year (or less) a pretty large used market. the only downer is no sd support.