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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 05:22 PM EDT |
Clive,
What you are missing is that due to the classpath exception, the presence of
some GPL userspace libraries (to implement "the 37") on the device
would not mean that the rest of Google's or the vendors' unique and original
libraries would need to be GPL. And it certainly does not mean that the
vendors' UI eye candy (/bloatware), or AngryBirds, or that project I keep
meaning to get back to working on, would need to be GPL.
Google decided to avoid GPL in userspace in order to avoid passing on the minor
hassles of source preparation and distribution or compliance and substantial
fear thereof to vendor boardrooms - NOT because using GPL-with-exception
libraries would actually be technically problematic or seriously limit vendor's
ability to differentiate themselves with proprietary platform extensions or
proprietary apps.
For GPL to be a technical issue, they vendors would have to want to compete
along the lines of "our timsort is faster than theirs!"... instead of
"our facebook client is prettier than theirs"[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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