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>It would be interesting to see if Chinese companies would even be interested in leading something like an Android fork....and follow the licensing rules. Ther
by simion314 7y ago
>It would be interesting to see if Chinese companies would even be interested in leading something like an Android fork....and follow the licensing rules.
There are plenty open source projects from China, so I do not see why you think they do not know the benefits of the open source. The problem with Android is that there is a large part that is closed source so they can't fork that, if they reimploement it then they are not forced by any license to make it open source.
- duxup 7y agoI'm not saying they "don't know".
- simion314 7y agoYou are impaling that the companies would ignore the GPL but you had not mention why do you suspect this, do you have a case in mind where this happened?
- duxup 7y agoI have no doubt that plenty of companies would comply with the GPL happily and would want to both as companies and individuals. Given something like a mobile OS, I'm concerned other pressures / motives would come into play. I don't think any given good behavior means anything.
- simion314 7y agoWhy would the mobile OS be different? If you sell hardware you don't want to make money from selling licenses and handling the support for a mobile OS. As a hardware company I would prefer the OS to be open source and have the patches mainlined into the kernel if possible. What I dislike in this topics is the fact US people will assume the worst about a thing if is somehow related to China, there is nothing suggesting that Huawei would not respect GPL.
- yorwba 7y agoHuawei had a pretty bad track record publishing their modified Linux kernel sources. They got better in recent years and created https://consumer.huawei.com/en/opensource/detail/?siteCode=worldwide&fileType=openSourceSoftware https://consumer.huawei.com/en/opensource/detail/?siteCode=w... but many older devices aren't listed. I think they'll be more careful to comply with open-source licenses in the future, but there's precedent to show that they don't care all that much if they can get away with it.
- oytis 7y ago> There are plenty open source projects from China Any examples that got popular outside China?