Yeah, its the "well, legally, we have to provide the source code, but we make it as painful and slow for you as we can without it becoming a blatant violation of the GPL."

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joelthelion 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I'm pretty sure there is a lot of code in Android that belongs to Google and is not part of an upstream GPL project. They would be completely entitled to stop sharing it.

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RobotToaster 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not quite, they could make you request it by post and send it on a stack of floppies.

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steve_taylor 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sounds like a cheap way to get my hands on some floppies.

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throwaway456754 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

They don't have to be cheap.

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afiori 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

you are right a stack of printed qr codes is better

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heftig 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No, that's too easily machine-read. Print it in a fancy calligraphy font or one with ambiguous characters.

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sunaookami 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reminds me of Lavabit where the US wanted the encryption keys and they printed them out in a 4 point font :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Legacy

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newswasboring 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's too convenient, cameras can read many qr codes at a time. Encode the binary on some punch cards.

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eptcyka an hour ago | parent [-]

Pretty sure cameras can be used to read punchcards too.

	▲	alex_suzuki 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This sounds like a fun project. Somebody already did it, apparently: https://hackaday.com/2012/07/30/reading-punch-cards-with-an-...

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bluedino 3 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Greenbar printouts.