Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:42:41 -0800 (PST) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline |
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Elvis Dowson wrote:
> Hi Greg, > > On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >> If you have the rights to make the changes to the andoid userspace code, >> great. Otherwise you are not going to get very far. > > Isn't the whole Android stack licensed under Apache 2.0? Doesn't everyone > have full access to the android userspace code? > > In your slides, you made several references to only google developers being > able to modify the low-level libraries, which I admit I still don't understand. > > If we have full access to the source under an Apache 2.0 license, what would > prevent us from making the required modifications and re-releasing the > modified sources under the same Apache 2.0 license?
you can modify them, but unless those modifications get used, what good are they?
David Lang
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