[kwlug-disc] Local places to buy unlocked phones...

[Andrew Stevanus (KWLUG)]

It should be noted that CopperheadOS relicensed their changes to CC
BY-NC-SA (note the *NonCommercial*), so they are not actually Free
Software, nor are they even Open Source, by the OSI definition. For that
reason, if you care about that sort of thing, I would stick to
LineageOS. More info:
<https://np.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/5s13ht/a_clarification_about_copperheadoss_present_and/>

If you want something that is as Free as possible, you may want
something that runs Replicant <https://www.replicant.us/>. However, you
should note that because so much ARM hardware depends on non-free blobs,
some things won't work on Replicant (like 3D acceleration, or even
Wi-Fi, in which case you need an adapter). I'm not aware of any store
that sells devices with Replicant pre-installed locally (though I would
love to be corrected on this); this is one such online shop:
<https://tehnoetic.com/mobile-devices>.

Alternatively, there is also the Librem 5
<https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/>, which I have high hopes for. It will
run native GNU/Linux instead of Android. It hasn't actually been
released yet, so you would need to pre-order it. There is always a risk
with pre-orders of unfinished hardware, but Purism has delivered other
hardware before, so I'm not overly concerned about that.

On 11/04/18 11:22, doug moen wrote:
> I think you want an open source Android *distribution*. You'll want it
> either preinstalled on a new phone that you buy, or some easy way to
> install it on a phone after buying it. You'll want automatic security
> updates. Probably you don't want to compile the source from scratch and
> manually compile and install all security updates.
> 
> The most popular one seems to be LineageOS.
> 
> CopperHeadOS (from Toronto) is an extremely security oriented open source
> Android distro. If you want to have the most secure opensource phone on the
> planet (which implies that you don't want to be spied on by Google or use
> their app store), then you might want CopperHead. You need to buy a phone
> from them, which has the OS preinstalled, and then you get security updates
> from their server. You'll use fDroid as your app store (it's an open source
> app store).
> 
> On 11 April 2018 at 11:06, Federer Fanatic <nafdef at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, Suggestions on where one can buy unlocked phones running android?
>>
>> Secondly, opensource android? Definitive source where one can install
>> easily
>> and super securely?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
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