Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754744Ab0KISmo (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:42:44 -0500 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:40630 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753139Ab0KISmn (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 13:42:43 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:42:41 -0800 (PST) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Elvis Dowson cc: Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline In-Reply-To: <58CAEF9F-BAB3-4F31-A524-70649F965BDE@mac.com> Message-ID: 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> <58CAEF9F-BAB3-4F31-A524-70649F965BDE@mac.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1073 Lines: 28 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 -- 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/