Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754711Ab0KISiQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:38:16 -0500 Received: from asmtpout027.mac.com ([17.148.16.102]:45148 "EHLO asmtpout027.mac.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754488Ab0KISiP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:38:15 -0500 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2010-11-09_12:2010-11-09,2010-11-09,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1004200000 definitions=main-1011090112 Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline From: Elvis Dowson In-reply-to: <20101109182437.GA13499@kroah.com> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:37:54 +0400 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-id: <58CAEF9F-BAB3-4F31-A524-70649F965BDE@mac.com> References: <01784A8B-36A0-4E8A-9729-23C2B19351F8@mac.com> <20101106181202.GA6927@kroah.com> <39580686-A899-4689-BAAD-AF5546B34E49@mac.com> <20101107155757.GA13736@kroah.com> <6477C549-DB75-407C-9B9B-5869A3B8D2BD@mac.com> <20101109182437.GA13499@kroah.com> To: Greg KH X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 945 Lines: 26 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? Best regards, Elvis Dowson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/