linux-kernel - Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1011091042120.28359@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:42:41 -0800 (PST)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@....com>
cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 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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