{"id":2756,"date":"2010-11-24T18:24:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T23:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2014-03-19T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T21:51:00","slug":"its-good-to-be-ubiquitous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s good to be ubiquitous"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Seems the phone uses libpng 1.2.6., of which I am a contributing author.<\/p>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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 carry those &#8211; I assumed they&#8217;d been replaced by some blob of Java.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>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to be ubiquitous.  And your <s>little dog Toto<\/s> basement router, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-open-source","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5582,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/5582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}