ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Thibaut Dedreuil_monet <dedreuil@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Is it true that the Agps will not be supported anymore on the Nexus 4?
>

No. Here agps is in the public nexus 4 image. There is no plan to remove it
that I am aware of.

>
> I completely understand from a business point of view that there must be a
> licence agreement between Here maps and Canonical, regarding the Agps
> avaibility.
> As an ordinary user, with a supported phone ( Nexus 4) it would be nice to
> be able to purchase a licence, for a reasonnable price, to re-enable the
> Agps. This would still enable me to have a phone with decent gps
> capabilities.
>
> As an example, the raspberry pi foundation, enables the purchase of
> licenced video codec. http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/
>
> It would be sad to see some hacks appearing to re-enable this feature
> while a paid and supported solution would be benificial for both the
> project as well as the vendor.
>
> It  would be nice if canonical was leading the way in encouraging
> different vendors to put on the Ubuntu store there modifications for others
> to enjoy.
> I would be happy to pay for having the aggregator scopes available on the
> BQ phone on my nexus 4 without having to purchase the BQ phone or hack my
> phone
>
> http://forum.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-touch/development/guide-install-bq-phone-scopes-ubuntu-t3051274
>
> The intention is to release the aggregator scopes  as well but some work
is needed before doing so, I think folks have just been busy.

Cheers
Pat


It would be even better if the money raised by buying all those extras
> would sponsor community developpers.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Thibaut
>
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