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Clarification on a few points

Posted Feb 1, 2012 11:41 UTC (Wed) by mitchskin (subscriber, #32405)
In reply to: Clarification on a few points by landley
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Android does have some (L)GPL code in userspace: dbus, bluez, and webkit at least.

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GPL in Android userspace

Posted Feb 2, 2012 12:58 UTC (Thu) by simonkelley (subscriber, #17525) [Link]

Android also has dnsmasq, which is GPLv2/GPLv3, in userspace. When they first started talking about removing GPL userspace I offered Google a license on pretty much any terms they wanted but covering use in Android only. They wouldn't take the "Android only" part, and dnsmasq is still in Ice Cream Sandwich under the GPL.