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> Why didn't the Android team make the GNU/Linux stuff work on Android; Because it is a lot of work? Because it's GPL licensed. That's it. Google has spent a
by adestefan 14y ago
> Why didn't the Android team make the GNU/Linux stuff work on Android; Because it is a lot of work?
Because it's GPL licensed. That's it.
Google has spent a lot of time and work ripping out perfectly good pieces of code that are GPL licensed and replacing it with (sometimes inferior) BSD or Apache licensed pieces. At some point, the only piece of GPL code will be the Linux kernel.