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Re:Linus Torvalds on Android, the Linux fork by zokier on Friday October 07, 2011 @03:39PM (#3085532)
No. GPL doesn't mean that derivative works source needs to be available. Thus Google may very well have modifications which are never made public.
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Re:Linus Torvalds on Android, the Linux fork by Rusky on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:06PM (#3085637)
The source must be available to those who have access to the program. If Google ever distributed those modifications, they would have to distribute the source as well.
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Re:Linus Torvalds on Android, the Linux fork by zokier on Friday October 07, 2011 @10:41PM (#3086838)
That's the big if. Especially when the paragraph was discussing Googles performance tweaks to their in-house kernel used in their servers.
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