Can someone explain the Hard-SPL Licensing?

[lawmangrant]

The licensing should be free to everyone, the reason for the licensing server is that the mass unlockers will have to pay for the unlocking now.

Me, I have my 1 TP2 and well, I will only unlock that, so that does not concern me at all.

And I am ok with them protecting their product.

[ajac]

report in.. all problems fixed... now just waiting for release

[rdd0512]

man you guys i swear. look, if you guys wrote programs, freeware, or whatever for years, and the people loved it so much that they never bothered to learn how to make similar programs on their own because they were so good and never had to because they were free. so every time they release a new device you have to make a new program for that one then you keep using a template and it works, then they release more devices and it gets a little more difficult, still within a short while you produce again. then finally you get a real challenge and you have been working on it all this time and you go to look for help and ideas and you threads like the ones here and realize how ungrateful the people you have been helping out for so many years. and you start to maybe (idk) see other versions of your program in the far corners of the internet. so you decide to get a licence for your program just to make sure you actually get the credit for creating the program you made for all of the ingrates.

[soicy423]

Originally Posted by ajac

report in.. all problems fixed... now just waiting for release

seriously? they got the licensing issue fixed?

[ajac]

Originally Posted by soicy423

seriously? they got the licensing issue fixed?

yeah cmonex said its done thier waiting for the server to come online so sounds like it could be soon

[Mutiny32]

Originally Posted by lawmangrant

The licensing should be free to everyone, the reason for the licensing server is that the mass unlockers will have to pay for the unlocking now.

Me, I have my 1 TP2 and well, I will only unlock that, so that does not concern me at all.

And I am ok with them protecting their product.

As I understand it, the Hard-SPL is a modified manufacturer bootloader. Since it was developed by the manufacturer, unless explicitly licensed under a license like the Apache/GPL/BSD, nobody can re-license nor charge for the code.

Modification cannot be used as justification, as it is a derivative work of the original copyrighted code.

Reverse-engineering is also covered under this same concept to a certain extent. If the code is reverse-engineered by inference, it cannot be redistributed if original code methods are used and the rest of the pieces filled in, as that is also considered derivative.

Edit: but it's a moot point, as it's already an illegal redistribution of HTC's code. HTC lets the community do so because the testing of pre-release code is vital to the development of better software.

[soicy423]

Originally Posted by ajac

yeah cmonex said its done thier waiting for the server to come online so sounds like it could be soon

are you still in the chat now? if you are can you let me kno when they say it's online? or when they say they're uploading stuff?

[ajac]

Originally Posted by soicy423

are you still in the chat now? if you are can you let me kno when they say it's online? or when they say they're uploading stuff?

I plan on reporting from the front line till its released they still just wiating for him to et ome and bring the server up

[soicy423]

Originally Posted by ajac

I plan on reporting from the front line till its released they still just wiating for him to et ome and bring the server up

that's what i like to hear. are you gonna post on this thread?

[lawmangrant]

Originally Posted by ajac

yeah cmonex said its done thier waiting for the server to come online so sounds like it could be soon

Not so sure this is accurate, the release is still TBA.