Update soal source-code andromax-v

Balasan terbaru dari smartfren:



Kalo ada dari pihak smartfren yang mantau thread ini (ane yakin sih ada).

Gini, Andromax-V pake sistem operasi android, dimana memakai kernel linuxyang mana menggunakan lisensi GPL v2

mari kita lihat alinea 3-4 pembukaan lisensinya:

To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid

anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.

These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you

distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.



 For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether

gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that

you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the

source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their

rights.

Lalu, poin 1-2 lisensinya:

1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's

source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you

conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate

copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the

notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;

and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License

along with the Program.



[B]You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and

you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.[/B]



 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion

of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and

distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1

above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:



 a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices

 stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.



 b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in

 whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any

 part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third

 parties under the terms of this License.



 c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively

 when run, you must cause it, when started running for such

 interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an

 announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a

 notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide

 a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under

 these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this

 License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but

 does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on

 the Program is not required to print an announcement.)

Selengkapnya bisa dilihat di sini

Hak ekslusif? Kalo Full Source-code(termasuk source-code android nya), Bisa jadi. Source-code kernel? Tidak ada.

Lihat yang saya tebalkan. Saya tidak masalah jika misalkan anda menghanguskan garansi saya dengan sebagai fee atas perilisan source-code andromax-v.

Saya yakin, pertimbangan terbesar pihak Smartfren untuk tidak merilis source-code adalah penguncian jaringan. Penguncian jaringan tidak berada di level kernel, tapi berada di level sistem operasi dan hardware perangkat. Buktinya? hanya dengan memasang patch di andromax-v, penguncian jaringan anda sudah terbuka, tanpa menyentuh kernel sama sekali.

Jika perusahaan sekaliber Smartfren saja tidak menghormati perjanjian dengan pihak lain, bagaimana bisa Smartfren mengharapkan pihak lain (termasuk pengguna layanan anda sendiri) untuk mau menghormati perjanjian dengan pihak anda?

Perilisan source-code (kernel) pada perangkat android anda tidak akan menimbulkan kerugian apapun. Yang ada malah iklan gratis, produk anda akan direkomendasikan oleh advanced user yang dijadikan tumpuan oleh pengguna awam ketika akan memilih perangkat untuk dibeli. Anda juga bisa mengiklankan diri dengan tagline, "Handphone Indonesia yang berbasiskan android pertama yang benar-benar terbuka"

Sebagai contoh, operator jaringan Sprint dan Verizon di Amerika Serikat. Mereka juga mengunci jaringan perangkat mereka, dan tetap merilis source-code, apakah lalu perangkat mereka dibuka kuncinya melalui source-code yang mereka rilis? Tidak.

Saya tunggu jawabannya, melalui e-mail di CustomerCare Smartfren.