Wikipedia article [1] mentions: "It is distributed as free and open-source software under a mix of software licenses, including BSD 3 clause, MIT, and Apache 2.0."
Please also check Zircon's kernel license [2]. The PATENTS thing doesn't look though.
Or did you meant that it doesn't have a GNU license with a clause that forces others to distribute the source?
Probably it doesn't matter that much to them as by being the developers of the software they can make changes in their software and just not share it.
Anyway, I'm not happy with more Googlification and them having the "expertise monopoly" in yet another piece of tech.
Things like ChromeOS and Chromecast shows that they're not willing to create an open OS.
Why are you conflating a GPL-compatible license with GPL-licensed software?
If Fuchsia shipped on phones in binary form, consumers receiving those phones would have no legal basis for requesting the source code of precisely what they received.
GPL-compatibility only speaks to the mixing of code having one license with GPL code.
I certainly confused GPL with open source. Sorry about that. I also agree that it would suck phones not having to share the source. Anyway, the current state of Android is far from ideal with most of drivers being closed blobs.
Of course a non GPL license would put us in a worse position but the current situations also has limitations.
I wonder if GNUv3 could solve the blobs drivers issue.
Please also check Zircon's kernel license [2]. The PATENTS thing doesn't look though.
Or did you meant that it doesn't have a GNU license with a clause that forces others to distribute the source?
Probably it doesn't matter that much to them as by being the developers of the software they can make changes in their software and just not share it.
Anyway, I'm not happy with more Googlification and them having the "expertise monopoly" in yet another piece of tech.
Things like ChromeOS and Chromecast shows that they're not willing to create an open OS.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia [2] https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/LICENSE