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> I work at a FAANG, and there’s pretty much a hard ban on any copyleft code I have trouble reconciling this with the existence of Android.
by mr_toad 8y ago
> I work at a FAANG, and there’s pretty much a hard ban on any copyleft code
I have trouble reconciling this with the existence of Android.
- icebraining 8y agoWhy? Android didn't have any copyleft code besides the Linux kernel, which doesn't extend to the userland. The rest of the components were Bionic (BSD), Dalvik (Apache) and Harmony (Apache). They now use OpenJDK, but that was after getting sued.
- rlpb 8y agoAndroid went out of their way to avoid GPL code in userspace.