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So does this mean that Android will be licensed under the GPL going forward?
by Klathmon 11y ago
So does this mean that Android will be licensed under the GPL going forward?
- guelo 11y agoParts of it yes. Just like the Linux kernel in Android is GPL.
- r3bl 11y agoThere's a bunch of GPL (or at least, open source) code in Android. Just go to Settings -> About phone -> Legal information -> Open source licenses and you'll see that lots and lots of parts of Android are open sourced (most of them using some version of GPL).
- yonran 11y agoIf you distribute OpenJDK, then only the modules that are “derived from or based on” OpenJDK are required to be GPLv2[+CE] (the Classpath Exception allows you to link the library with an independent closed-source library). So I think it would only require platform/libcore itself to be released under GPLv2+CE. Probably manufacturers don’t need to modify platform/libcore too much anyway. GPLv2+CE: http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html Again, the commit in question: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore.git/+/51b1b6997fd3f980076b8081f7f1165ccc2a4008 https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore.git/+/51b1...