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Why should they ship anythingWhy should they ship anythingPosted Apr 22, 2011 0:21 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: ABS: Android beyond the phone by w_sang Parent article: ABS: Android beyond the phone
Well, the literal reading of the GPL will of course mean that drivers should be shipped but when there are literally hundreds of millions of devices where drivers and binary-only blobs (I mean routers)... will any court really accept the theory that it was not the intention of developers in first place - what with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and everything?
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Why should they ship anything Posted Apr 22, 2011 3:41 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
The point of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL has always been to indicate that the authors feel that there's no possible way that you could use the functionality without being a derived work. But it's also always been explicit that this is not intended to mean that avoiding EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL means that you're *not* a derived work. At that point you're just in a slightly greyer area.
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