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Why are you conflating a GPL-compatible license with GPL-licensed software? If Fuchsia shipped on phones in binary form, consumers receiving those phones would
by newnewpdro 9y ago
Why are you conflating a GPL-compatible license with GPL-licensed software?
If Fuchsia shipped on phones in binary form, consumers receiving those phones would have no legal basis for requesting the source code of precisely what they received.
GPL-compatibility only speaks to the mixing of code having one license with GPL code.
- sanbor 9y agoI certainly confused GPL with open source. Sorry about that. I also agree that it would suck phones not having to share the source. Anyway, the current state of Android is far from ideal with most of drivers being closed blobs. Of course a non GPL license would put us in a worse position but the current situations also has limitations. I wonder if GNUv3 could solve the blobs drivers issue.