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Note that Android uses a Linux kernel, but a fair amount of BSD in the libs and userland.
by hhw 13y ago
Note that Android uses a Linux kernel, but a fair amount of BSD in the libs and userland.
- dredmorbius 13y agoDrawing ideological boundaries is always a fraught process. Traditional GNU/Linux systems include a great deal of BSD/MIT licensed software. Locally, I've got over 3100 packages installed on a Debian box. Running grep over /usr/share/doc/*/copyright I find: 2555 of these are GPL licensed, 774 BSD, 1462 reference MIT (this may include non-license references, "MIT License" nets 28 entries), 139 Apache, 25 Python, etc. Stallman's argument is over the core of the OS, which he makes a fair case for being kernel + compiler + core libraries. In the case of Linux, that's straight up GNU for #'s 2 and 3.