Pebble GPL voilation

7 points by if_you_see_sid 10y ago ↗ HN

The Pebble Time application for Android uses GPL V2 licenced software, javamail-android, yet does not provide a method to obtain the sourcecode for the application.

https://pebble.com/legal/open_source#javamail

3 comments

[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 20.4 ms ] thread

logn 10y ago ↗

JavaMail API itself has a linking exception and it's also dual licensed as the Common Development and Distribution License.

[deleted] 10y ago ↗

(comment deleted)

crazypyro 10y ago ↗

Also licensed under BSD, according to the github.