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What licenses are used in Android beside the kernel's GPLv2? In other words, what are they required to release? What can they keep closed at will?



Most of it uses the Apache Source License 2.0, which doesn't require releasing the source. You can look through http://android.git.kernel.org/ (especially external) for some others, but they're mostly similar licenses.

There are some GPL things in there besides the kernel, and a few of them are probably shipped. I'm not sure how e.g., Motorola is handling this (since they clearly have an obligation to provide the GPL source).

See also http://source.android.com/source/licenses.html


My understanding is that all the exciting changes in Honeycomb involve the user interface, which is all ASL.


WebKit is (mostly LGPL v 2.1




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