Linus Says Android License Claim Is 'Bogus'

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @01:08PM from the who-is-this-linus-guy-and-what-does-he-know dept.

jbrodkin writes "Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has scoffed at a new claim that Android violates the Linux license. Google's use of the Bionic Library does not result in a derivative work that has to be licensed under GPL, as some lawyers are claiming, Torvalds says. 'It seems totally bogus,' Torvalds said. 'We've always made it very clear that the kernel system call interfaces do not in any way result in a derived work as per the GPL.' While some claims against Android can be dismissed outright, Google and its partners still must fend off patent lawsuits filed by rivals Microsoft and Oracle."

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prepaid and up by satsuke · 2011-03-22 14:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Look into a deaf/hard of hearing rate plan on one of the GSM carriers. It'll probably include a bucket of text you don't need, but it'll have data service for presumably less than a standard minutes plan. As far as the EU leg of your travels .. since your only charged for outgoing text and calls it shouldn't be too hard to get a prepaid SIM with some amount of data on it.
Though with Sprint/Virgin offering $25 a month unlimited data on a cheap android phone, it might be cheaper just to get two phones, develop on wifi when in the other country and just go with that.