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Defence of the GPL realm (The H)Defence of the GPL realm (The H)Posted Jan 7, 2013 0:05 UTC (Mon) by DHR (guest, #81356)In reply to: Defence of the GPL realm (The H) by airlied Parent article: Defence of the GPL realm (The H)
As far as I know, almost all Android devices are distributed with binary Linux kernels and binary device driver modules. These device drivers are often closed-source. In particular, I think all reasonable video drivers are closed source.
So: is this a license violation? I guess not since a majority of the smart phone world would then be uncompliant.
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Defence of the GPL realm (The H) Posted Jan 7, 2013 5:21 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
So far, nobody who has standing to do so has considered these to be a license violation enough to take action, so for practical matters they are not.
It gets hard when a lot of the 'binary drivers' are userspace components like the camera drivers on most devices.
Defence of the GPL realm (The H) Posted Jan 7, 2013 5:24 UTC (Mon) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]
Is nouveau an unreasonable video driver? Or did you mean all reasonable smartphone GPU drivers?
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