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SubjectRe: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline
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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