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Re:There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use by jhasse on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @06:38AM (#15694218)
> Yeah, probably. But the presence of packages like GNU libc can make it harder for the manufacturer to lock the device.

glibc is LGPL, so I don't see how that should change anything?

> (as it is a violation of GNU GPL).

IIRC it's a gray area.

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Re:There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use by pksadiq on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @06:59AM (#15694303)
> glibc is LGPL, so I don't see how that should change anything?

glibc requires libgcc[0], which is GPLv3 (with runtime exception). The same for libstdc++[1].

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Libgcc.html [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/license.html

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Re:There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use by jhasse on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @07:14AM (#15694376)
The runtime exception makes it possible that everything else is proprietary, locked and unchangeable. Which actually is okay for apps IMHO, because I would want to run proprietary software like games (sandboxed of course).

The kernel really is the problem here and where there's no GPLv3 code used at all.

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