[dundee] Android 3 not open

[Andrew Clayton]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:38:41 +0000, Robert Ladyman wrote:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/24/google_will_not_open_source_android_honeycomb_on_release_of_first_devices/
> 
> Also, it's alleged that GPL code (primarily header files) is
> 'cleaned' of its comments (stating that it is GPL code) and that
> Google then claims that the code is no longer GPL.
> 
> Why would you (and do you) support such a product?

Better nip the FUD in the butt...

Gordon posted a link with some quotes from Linus. Here's a
link to a Linux Weekly News article on it.

https://lwn.net/Articles/434318/

For the non-subscribers...

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/434318/48e3b5b6ef86656a/

And quoting from the COPYING file in the kernel source:

"NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
 services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
 of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work"."

That was an exception put in specifically by Linus.

Andrew