To expand on David's remarks a bit, bionic exists for two reasons:
- To provide a small embedded libc - To meet the license goals of the core android platform, which are: - GPL for the Linux kernel and drivers - Apache2/BSD/MIT whenever possible for userspace One of my hopes is that over time we can reduce the footprint of the core platform (by a combination of putting various modules on a diet and also making the core build more configurable so unneeded components may be more easily omitted). Brian [David Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > There is absolutely zero chance that GLibc becomes part of the Android > open-source platform for licensing reasons. > (same for uCLibc, KLibc, DietLibc and EGlibc by the way) > > That doesn't mean that we are totally opposed to people providing patches > that would allow to use the Android > sources with GLibc, but we are not going to support this effort (which means > that if some of our changes break > a GLibc system, that will be *your* problem, patches welcome). > > Also, we make absolutely no guarantee about the correct behaviour of a > GLibc-based Android system, > *especially* with regards to security. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
