OpenSourceAppSupport
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[edit] Open Source App Support
Android demonstrates the many benefits of Open Source. It would make sense to extend that to many more applications, via a community-managed code repository, automated build server and market server which users can trust and build on, modeled or based on Debian/Ubuntu.
Goals: improve trust in app security, quality, likelihood of continued updates and availability, build community, share code snippets and libraries also, etc.
Ubuntu and Android can learn from each other.
It would help to have metadata for apps in market to indicate when they are built from open source. Perhaps some sort of signature from the build engine which includes license information?
Thanks to the work of many other folks on this site, you can see information on the licensing status of many exisiting applications at Applications.
[edit] Open Issues
- Is Google willing to put this sort of licensing metadata in the Google marketplace?
- Or do we need to put this sort of feature in a new market server and client?
- Who wants to work on this?
- Hosting an automated build server
- What code hosting to use and integrate with the build servers?
See also work on running Android within Ubuntu:
