It&#8217;s good to be ubiquitous
<p>So, while trying to discover the minor version of the Android 2.2 running on my G-2, I touched the tab labeled &#8220;Open source licenses&#8221;. Scrolled down, and &#8220;Eric S. Raymond&#8221; popped out at me.</p>
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<p>Seems the phone uses libpng 1.2.6., of which I am a contributing author.</p>
<p>So of course I looked on my Nexus One.  If libpng is there the license is buried pretty deep &#8211; but it uses libgif, and my name&#8217;s on that for even better reasons.  </p>
<p>Ah, there&#8217;s libpng, about 25% of the way through  a huge pile of licenses.  Suggests libgif is on the G-2 as well, deeper than I&#8217;ve looked in that pile, though it&#8217;s a bit of a puzzle why the licenses are in different orders.</p>
<p>This is my happy for the day.  Android phones are about the only smartphones I thought <em>didn&#8217;t</em> carry those &#8211; I assumed they&#8217;d been replaced by some blob of Java.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s good to be ubiquitous.  And your <s>little dog Toto</s> basement router, too!</p>
