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Are Third-Party Android Vendors Violating the GPL?

Posted by timothy on Monday May 23, 2011 @11:21AM from the checking-it-twice dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Google's refusal to not release Honeycomb source code is kosher because the code in question is released under the Apache license. But the kernel at the heart of Android is GPL'd, which means that code must be released. Google has actually been a good citizen in this regard — but many third-party Android vendors, not so much. While Asus has released their code, there are a host of companies that seem to have not done so, and Matthew Garrett is maintaining a list."

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Re:A more concise summary by Microlith · 2011-05-23 11:38 · Score: 4, Insightful

License does not specify when it has to be released.
The GPL does. It must be delivered to whoever the binaries are given to. Playing stupid weasel games to disenfranchise people is idiotic (well, unless you hate open source and like screwing your customers.)
The rest of your post is ridiculous.