I don't think all this talk of lawyers etc is very productive. As long as someone asks in a civil and respectful manner and mentions any relevant parts of the GPL licence agreement, I'm sure the ES guys will be happy to give up the source code for those parts which fall under the terms of the GPL. Doug Atkinson said himself they chose android "because they liked the cost of it...." which I infer to mean free. What companies must understand though is that they can't miss the elephant in the room that is Open Source Licencing and GPL which usually goes hand in hand with using a Linux kernel for their hardware. Samsung fell foul of this one and had to release the firmwares for their LCD TVs (see SammyGo project) as it was Linux based and fell under the GPL.

However the guys are working hard on an SDK which ought to prevent a lot of wheel re-invention and hopefully abstract the hardware and open up the Edge enough for third parties to develop their own apps without worrying too much about low level nitty gritty.

Let's repay a little of the customer focus the tech guys at ES have displayed thus far and stop all this litigation cr*p.