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Linus Says Android License Claim Is 'Bogus'
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."
So, one more FUD refuted. Now Microsoft and Apple shills will have to look for something else.
Seriously. A lot of media pundits are nothing but paid writers employed by major companies - this is especially true for Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft seems to have been getting better slowly, but Apple is a whole different story.
*awaits troll moderation*
Stop trying to make the world fit your ego and learn to accept facts as facts.
Any sufficiently advanced influence is indistinguishable from control.
it's about openness not a company.
Allowing interfaces to be copyrighted would threaten many efforts to create competing implemetatins, would threaten projects like wine, other similar project, opem or closed
They did nothing wrong here, so there's no reason to hate.
They do a lot of things right, and definitely deserve praise for those things.
They do have their downsides, and you should criticize them for those.
"Love" and "hate" is for fanbois.
Right now the case against Google is with Oracle. All these Linux matters are being brought up as FUD.
Oracle? Oracle has about as much right to slam Google of violationg the GPL as Satan would have slamming St. Peter for allegedly having coveted his neighbor's Xbox 360.
When it comes to Open source development, Oracle is akin to the planet killer from the StarTrek season 2, episode #35 The Doomsday Machine.
As in... Oracle is a giant open source project eater. They buy out valuable open source sponsors, and spit out s****. Look at their track record: Sleepycat Software (BerkelyDB), Innobase (InnoDB), Sun (Java, OpenSolaris, MySQL, Glassfish)
What do we have to show for it? Open source projects vanishing or perverted. In all likelihood these will all soon show to be abandonware or obsoleted.
Hell... OpenSolaris is already dead not just in theory.
And Java is on its way out, due to the way Oracle's f"""cking up suing folks over adapting Java to their needs.... (what happened to 'open source'... 'community'?)
Sun forums going away..... Oracle not talking to the community, except in marketing faux blogs.
Translation; Oracle.......... "Open source community"; except the community's being taken out, oh, and by the way, the source / development isn't open anymore.