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It’s good to be ubiquitous
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<p>So, while trying to discover the minor version of the Android 2.2 running on my G-2, I touched the tab labeled “Open source licenses”. Scrolled down, and “Eric S. Raymond” 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>
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<p>So of course I looked on my Nexus One. If libpng is there the license is buried pretty deep – but it uses libgif, and my name’s on that for even better reasons. </p>
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<p>Ah, there’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’ve looked in that pile, though it’s a bit of a puzzle why the licenses are in different orders.</p>
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<p>This is my happy for the day. Android phones are about the only smartphones I thought <em>didn’t</em> carry those – I assumed they’d been replaced by some blob of Java.</p>
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<p>It’s good to be ubiquitous. And your <s>little dog Toto</s> basement router, too!</p>
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