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Why are hardware innovations not possible with Android's Linux kernel? OEMs' concerns about the GPL?
by cpeterso 10y ago
Why are hardware innovations not possible with Android's Linux kernel? OEMs' concerns about the GPL?
- pjmlp 10y agoYes, the kernel is the only GPL component on the stack. Google just deprecated gcc and will only offer clang on future NDK versions. Native apps are so constrained in Android that they could replace Linux with something else and only OEMs writing drivers would notice. Fuchsia takes this further by not having any GPL component at all.