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Can someone explain to me how shipping devices with Honeycomb without supplying the source is not a violation of the GPL?

• wmf 16y ago
  The source that they're witholding is not GPL.
  • lutorm 16y ago
    And it's not a derivative work of the Linux kernel? I don't know much about how Android is structured, but I thought people were complaining that Google didn't push their changes upstream into the main Linux kernel, which would imply that it's part of the Linux kernel.
    • wmf 16y ago
      Presumably Google has published the Honeycomb kernel (I didn't bother to verify this), but that's not interesting. The other 90% of Android is non-GPL userspace code.
      • lutorm 16y ago
        Ok, thanks.