Saturday 2 July 2016

OpenHU Project - Continuing Mike Reid's Android Auto Head Unit App



Hi all, it appears that Mike Reid, the developer of the original FOSS Android Auto Head Unit app, has sadly passed away.

We are continuing the development in a new app, which we call the OpenHU Project. It stands for OpenHU.

Just want to address some one concern that some have already raised: OpenHU will continue to be fully open source under GPL, forever.

The only thing that may change is that we are trying to get permission from Mike Reid's family to relicense under GPLv2, as Mike had intended to permit those uses personally - and he obviously can't anymore.

Learn More: http://console.com.co/openhu/
Wiki: http://wiki.console.com.co/w/OpenHU
GitHub: http://github.com/iConsole/OpenHU

Finally - we are offering a ,000 bounty, as the first full round of our Console Developer Rewards initiative. We had previously planned to focus on Android for x86, but Intel and Android were on troubled waters at the time... so we didn't fully launch it. In the wake of Mike's passing, we felt the best thing to do was focus on this effort.

As you may have heard, some recent changes to GMS (Google Play Services) broke Mike's app. But we are already hard at work, and you can win a portion (or all) of the ,000 by helping us fix it!



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