[dundee] Android 3 not open

Robert Ladyman it at file-away.co.uk
Fri Mar 25 08:54:02 UTC 2011


> I'd like to preface this by saying that I don't have an Android phone:
> 
> Ah The Register, the Daily Mail or tech journalism. When they're not
> publishing a press release they do a badly written or sensationalist
> story. About the only thing worth reading there is BOFH.
> 
> Stallman said some things about header files back in
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0301.1/0362.html
> 
> I'm fairly extremest with stuff like this; I think if you use the
> header files then you have to GPL the code.
> 

Yes, that would be my interpretation - think of it the other way around, where 
there was a claim in the header files that the code belonged to a company: 
removing the comments would be disingenuous at best. 


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