The BlueZ stack was deliberately isolated to accommodate the GPL license requirements without affecting the rest of the source code.
On Apr 21, 2:36 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com> wrote: > Indeed, bluez is a rare part of Android that is licensed under the GPL. > > JBQ > > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ravi <yend...@pv.com> wrote: > > > Bumping this up. > > > Can someone from Google please comment on this? > > > -Ravi > > > On Apr 20, 12:56 am, Ravi <yend...@pv.com> wrote: > >> I do see the GPL license. That's bizarre. I was under the impression > >> that the entire android tree has to be provided with the Apache > >> license. Maybe someone from Google can confirm. > > >> Just fyi...PacketVideo has provided their version of the SBC encoder > >> already as part of OpenCORE [external/opencore/codecs_v2/audio/sbc]. > > >> -Ravi > > >> On Apr 20, 12:13 am, Andy Quan <androidr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > Hi, > >> > As far as I remember, BlueZ is released under GPL license. Is this the > >> > same > >> > in android? If so, does this mean if I want to integrate my customized > >> > SBC > >> > encoder lib into this framework, I have to make my encoder open source? > > >> > -- > >> > Thanks, > >> > Andy > > -- > Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru > Android Engineer, Google. > > Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private > will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further > warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-framework" group. To post to this group, send email to android-framework@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-framework+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-framework?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
