Saturday, September 27, 2014

Why GitHub is partial source, not full

EDIT: Please see the post on Licensing Issues.

I am hesitant to upload the full sources for my various Android applications the way I have for pstate-frequency. The Android applications are released under a personal copyright, meaning that I intend to use them as a revenue source at one point or another. To release the full source is to harm my chances of creating real revenue and also opens the door for malicious individuals to patch the function essential parts of my code to do unintended or malicious things and then release the resulting product illegally onto a different market or virtual store. I cannot have this as the safety of my users is paramount to me. If you really wish to view the missing sources, send me an email at pyam.soft@gmail.com, stating what source you wish to view from which application, as well as what your intentions are for viewing the source. You must explicitly state in the email that you do not intend to redistribute, reproduce, or create derivative works using the source if I choose to provide it to you. You must state that you are asking for the ability to view the source purely from an educational point of view, and will not copy or claim any of the code as your own.

I am being careful because it is my job to keep users who do not posses as much knowledge about computer safety out of harms reach. I hope you all understand my reasons. Should the situation change in the future, I may think about uploading the full source once again.

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