Today I was looking into the OpenSource licenses which are displayed for Android (2.3.4). There are several files which come with a BSD license.
During looking at it, I noticed that the libm has the copyright of several FreeBSD people. I did not had an in-deep look if this is because they took the FreeBSD libm, or if this is because parts of the FreeBSD libm where adopted by other BSD projects.
What I noticed is, that some special characters are not displayed correctly. For example the name Dag-Erling Smørgrav looks mangled in the display of the license inside the phone (I hope it is displayed better in my blog). His name is not the only problem case, there are also other characters which are not rendered as expected.
This does not really look professional.
I don’t really blame them, it’s one of only a few files that still have my name in latin1. I’ve been thinking about asking them to fix it, but I have no idea who to contact.
“I hope it is displayed better in my blog”.
Nope, not in an RSS reader (google reader)
it does not, see http://www.tobez.org/download/netchild-des.png .
I noticed this myself. I do not know why this happens. I use the default WordPress RSS feature.