Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS
by kristoffer on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @07:25AM
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No it's not a "rampant" violation. Some people believe it is a violation and some not. Linus Torvalds being one who thinks its's fine. See e.g. https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/218
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Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS
by giancarlostoro on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @08:37AM
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From the link:
> But if the module was written for other systems, and just ported to Linux,
and not using our code, then it's very much debatable whether it's
actually a "derived work". Interfaces don't make "derived works" per se.
Interesting, wonder where this puts Android's Dalvik VM (is the VM called this too? I don't remember). Edit: Not sure what the JVM Dalvik is based on is licensed as though.