On 8/13/09 9:07 AM, "Andy Tai" <[email protected]> wrote: > > The free software license (LGPL) allows you to do that (spending > efforts to port all Clutter related libraries to Bionic C)
As long as the only Android-based dependency is on bionic (which is BSD-licensed), you should be okay here. However, you need to be very careful about dependencies on other parts of Android which may be Apache-licensed: the v2 LGPL and the Apache license aren't compatible (and the GPLv3 is only compatible with Apache in one direction: Apache-licensed code can be included in GPLv3-licensed coded, but not the other way around, see http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html). > Maybe a better question is why shouldn't you ask Google to support the > standard GNU/Linux ecosystem on Android? That would be pleasant, but Google hasn't shown any particular willingness to work with the open source community in other than a very circumscribed way; Android was one example of this tendency, it looks as though "Chrome OS" will be another one... -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
