Fairphone - a free Android device?

[Carsten Agger]

I just received my Fairphone. It came with a widget to "install Google
apps" - when I clicked it, I was told that the phone is missing
important functionality as it does not include Google apps, which they
"unfortunately" don't have a license to distribute.

I then deleted the widget.

In th instruction folder under "your rights", we're told that all
applicable software licenses are in the "Legal information" section
under the "about phone" entry in the settings.

Entering there, I find that the only point is "Open Source Licenses".
These are listed in a not very intuitive way, but seems mostly to be GPL
and standard Android/Apache licenses. So apparently the Fairphone does
not have any proprietary software installed by default. So maybe buying
a Fairphone is one of the easiest (admittedly not cheapest) ways of
getting a free vanilla Android system?

Best,
Carsten


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