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Re:Freeing my tablet: Android hacking, software and hardware by pjmlp on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:42AM (#12889514)
Hence why Google is happily replacing every GPL component left in Android with MIT BSD ones in each Android release, GCC has already been shown the door.

In Fuchsia, they are even replacing Linux by their own micro-kernel, BSD licensed.

How much contributions has Sony given back to BSD from their PS4 BSD distribution?

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Re:Freeing my tablet: Android hacking, software and hardware by sadfsdfsadfsd on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:54AM (#12889557)
They've made a handful of contributions back. Arguably, a lot of the changes they've made they couldn't share anyways (AMD licensing agreements) or were built on top of it as applications.

FWIW: I, for sure, appreciate the GPL3 and copy-left licenses.

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