Re: [A]GPL vs Apache 2
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Take Android userspace. I guess nothing there is open. Even the kernel
> can have binary blobs, and we, the users, are left out.
A correction: Android userspace is mostly Free Software and there are
open Android apps available, which enables things like Replicant and
F-Droid to exist as well as for Debian to package parts of Android.
https://www.replicant.us/
https://f-droid.org/
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=android
Android uses variants of the Linux kernel, which is licensed under the
GNU GPLv2, any binary blobs are probably violations of the license and
should be dealt with in the usual way; license compliance efforts. For
Linux this is handled by the Software Freedom Conservancy and probably
individual developers and users.
https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/
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pabs
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