[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/14/2021 8:47 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Friday, October 15, 2021 at 5:48:48 AM UTC+13, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> Unwise given the IP lawyers necessarily get involved with discussions
>> re-using a GPL kernel and/or re-using drivers for a closed-source
>> product and particularly where the vendor reportedly has no rights to
>> release much of the closed source.
> 
> Android seems to manage that OK. And not just for Google, but for all the makers of Android-based hardware and software.

In the Android world that is generally manged by putting everything
kernel under GPL and only license userland stuff different (Apache
or proprietary).

GPL is GPL. A driver either get under GPL or they have to do the
shim trick to decouple the core driver from kernel.

Arne