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GPL and AndroidGPL and AndroidPosted Aug 23, 2011 13:28 UTC (Tue) by southey (subscriber, #9466)In reply to: GPL and Android by rsidd Parent article: Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica)
Nope as only the kernel is the important part since it has to interact with the hardware. Consequently, any non-free software part is irrelevant provided you are prepared to write the code. Perhaps this will force the manufacturers to be more a community than waiting for the 'grass to grow'.
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GPL and Android Posted Aug 28, 2011 23:47 UTC (Sun) by kolla (guest, #23560) [Link]
There's plenty of non-GPL binary blobs in the android kernel modules. My LG-P990 Optimus 2x has nVidia chipset in it, do you think that the driver (kernel module) is written by Google or LG? No, it's written by nVidia, and is as closed source as they get.
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