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But Android is Linux, which last time I checked it's copyleft.
by paride5745 4y ago
But Android is Linux, which last time I checked it's copyleft.
- jillesvangurp 4y agoIt is but it uses GPLv2, which has a few accidental loop holes that they tried to close with v3. The net result of this is that with some defensive strategies, you can pretty much do whatever you want with Linux and get away with such things as bundling proprietary drivers, firmware or running closed source software on it. Which is a reason things like Android can exist. To copyleft people that's a bug, for most Linux users, that's a key feature of the license. Without that, we'd all be using BSD (like most mac users are) or something else.