In article <[email protected]>, Rui Maciel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tim Smith wrote: > > > Which means the kernel will be GPL. > > The OS kernel is a major component of any operating system. Some > people even defend that the kernel is the OS. So that must count for > something. > > > > They haven't said anything that I've > > seen about the rest of the system other than it will be open source. > > Well, if they are putting together an operating system and they > already stated that the kernel of their operating system will be > GPLed, then what's missing? If they happen to put up a non-GPLed > window manager does that mean that their OS ceasses to be based on > GPLed code? Take a look at their other current OS: Android. GPL for the kernel. Apache license for most of the rest. That's open source, but one can make a proprietary fork of it. Google usually doesn't use GPL for code unless they have to. Hence, I want to know why the original poster thinks Chrome OS will be GPL. -- --Tim Smith _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
