From: david@lang.hm
To: Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@mac.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:42:41 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1011091042120.28359@asgard.lang.hm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58CAEF9F-BAB3-4F31-A524-70649F965BDE@mac.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-30 18:18 Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline Elvis Dowson
2010-11-02 21:25 ` Janakiram Sistla
2010-11-06 18:12 ` Greg KH
2010-11-06 19:22 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-06 19:40 ` Anca Emanuel
2010-11-06 23:40 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-06 23:52 ` david
2010-11-07 0:03 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-07 0:13 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-07 0:20 ` Janakiram Sistla
2010-11-09 16:30 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-07 0:20 ` david
2010-11-10 13:54 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-10 20:38 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-01-11 14:33 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-06 23:42 ` Janakiram Sistla
2010-11-06 23:09 ` Greg KH
2010-11-07 0:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-11-07 8:38 ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-07 11:44 ` Anca Emanuel
2010-11-07 15:57 ` Greg KH
2010-11-07 20:06 ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-07 21:31 ` Greg KH
2010-11-07 21:46 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-07 21:47 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-09 18:10 ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-09 18:24 ` Greg KH
2010-11-09 18:37 ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-09 18:42 ` david [this message]
2010-11-09 18:52 ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-09 20:55 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-09 22:32 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-10 0:35 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-10 9:53 ` Florian Mickler
2010-11-10 20:55 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-07 21:44 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-07 21:59 ` Greg KH
2010-11-07 23:09 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-08 1:42 ` Greg KH
2010-11-08 2:22 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-09 13:27 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-11 0:33 ` Roland Dreier
2010-11-11 0:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-12 3:15 ` Roland Dreier
2010-11-12 10:26 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-11 0:47 ` Greg KH
2010-11-11 11:21 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-12 3:17 ` Roland Dreier
2010-11-11 11:18 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-09 13:27 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-09 13:51 ` [OpenWrt-Devel] " Wolfgang Spraul
2010-11-13 3:06 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-15 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-16 6:23 ` Brian Swetland
2010-11-16 7:02 ` Anca Emanuel
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