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Popular Android ROM Accused of GPL Violation

Posted by Soulskill on from the small-details-like-compliance dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A petition has recently been started to get the developer of the popular Android 'MIUI' ROM, Chinese based Xiaomi, to comply with the GPL. While Android itself is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License, and therefore does not actually require derivative works to be FOSS, the Linux kernel itself is GPL-licensed and needs to remain open. Unless Xiaomi intends to develop a replacement for the Linux kernel, they need to make their modifications public."

4 of 197 comments (clear)

  1. Popular? by the_humeister · · Score: 3, Funny

    More popular than Cyanogenmod? As popular? Less popular? I've never heard of this thing. Must be popular in China.

  2. Re:Petitioning China? by bug1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    do they have a copyright agreement with the US?

    So we need permission from the US to enforce international copyright agreements now ?

  3. Re:that's good but I want to know: by crutchy · · Score: 3, Funny

    oh no you mentioned hosts

  4. Re:Petitioning China? by Voyager529 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What possible "enforcement" can be levied against China for this?

    "Respect our copyrights or we'll borrow less money!"