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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."

2 of 197 comments (clear)

  1. they need to make the entire kernel available by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    not just their modifications, but all the gpl sources. they only need to make this available to their own customers.

  2. Re:they are just bits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ah, yes. The GPL. The only copyright most readers here defend.