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Originally Posted by HarryT
I honestly don't know how the licensing of these things is done, I'm afraid.
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As far as I am concerned, the issue is way broader and of crucial importance for Google and OSS in general.
ANY attempt to spread FUD claiming that use of Linux is a violation of someone's IP has to be dealt with swiftly:
- either by re-write or re-engineering of the offending code/solution, or
- by clearly separating the offending solution into a separate package that is not part of the core/free codebase.
It is up to Google to shoulder that burden, that's the price of using Linux under the hood. Make Android clean, that's their core business. Ubuntu did it by moving everything to Medibuntu repository, Red Hat had removed questionable codecs long, long time ago.
If Samsung wants to "bundle" FAT file system with their products, that's just fine and dandy, their choice. But Android, out of the box, must be kept CLEAN.