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guelo on Nov 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google releases full Android 4.0.1 source code, in...

Only Android's modifications to the Linux kernel and a few other tools are under GPL. Most stuff is Apache 2.0.

vog on Nov 15, 2011 [–]

That's what Google used to tell us, but according to the guys of gpl-violations.org, this has always been a flat-out lie. Those "few other tools under GPL" are quite a lot and in no way negligible.

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