Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

Re:Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move by pedrocr on Thursday January 02, 2014 @12:43PM (#7000855)

> Android (which while built of GNU/Linux pieces, is radically different from traditional GNU/Linux - enough to qualify as a different OS IMO, since the API is different).

The "GNU/Linux" vs "Linux" discussion is a long one but I'm pretty sure there's (almost?) no GNU in Android.

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Re:Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move by lmm on Thursday January 02, 2014 @02:40PM (#7001725)

I don't normally say "GNU/Linux", but I felt this was a case where the distinction is particularly important, because Android does run the Linux kernel, but is (IMO) a different OS from GNU/Linux.

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Re:Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move by pedrocr on Thursday January 02, 2014 @05:09PM (#7002677)

Right. The reason I made my comment was because you said "which while built of GNU/Linux pieces" referring to Android, which doesn't make sense.

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Re:Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move by rpgmaker on Thursday January 02, 2014 @01:05PM (#7001018)

There's GNU in android.

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Re:Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move by justincormack on Thursday January 02, 2014 @01:09PM (#7001044)

I don't think there is. What are you thinking of? All of userland is not GPL licensed, I don;t even think any is LGPL, so I don;t think there is any GNU there.

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Re:Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move by belorn on Thursday January 02, 2014 @01:35PM (#7001229)

In fsf writing about it:

  Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system
  because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about
  the only component in common between Android and 
  GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.en.h...

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