Huawei apparently presenting microG as if it's an official Huawei product
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Someone just alerted me to this post on the Huawei forums.
Curious what @mar-v-in has to say about this.
EDIT:
They in fact admit it is from a "3rd party provider" in their FAQ but they also characterize it as an "upgrade" of another app on their app gallery "Lighthouse". Which is apparently also written by a 3rd-party.
They do not link to any of the official microG websites/pages.
This is a shame, it's not the first time that FOSS is deliberately "stolen", TiVo hardware for example.
Also I would not install their version, wich modification have made on the source code? How can be verified?
I think that there is all the motivations for a legal move.
There is no stealing going on here. All the code is published open source, code is contributed back upstream bit by bit and I'm personally involved with the release process in AppGallery. However it's still considered a beta functionality to them, only available in some countries and for some devices through AppGallery.
There is no stealing going on here. All the code is published open source, code is contributed back upstream bit by bit and I'm personally involved with the release process in AppGallery. However it's still considered a beta functionality to them, only available in some countries and for some devices through AppGallery.
I apology if this question is too personal but does that mean @DaVinci9196 is a developer from Huawei or he's the team (maybe leader ?) behind the port for the AppGallery version that maybe not officially endorsed but allowed by Huawei ?
To be precise: I am uploading the release to AppGallery, the file uploaded to AppGallery is exactly the -hw file also published here on GitHub.
There previously was an app called LightHouse in AppGallery that was a fork of microG. The changes of the fork are now merged back into upstream. For all I know, Huawei was not directly involved with the development of LightHouse, nor are they directly involved with development of microG now.
As I published it in AppGallery, as per the terms of AppGallery, Huawei is allowed to advertise microG to its users and as a feature of their phones at their discretion. I'm not involved with any of those.