> Just for the record, Google has no problem with the GPLv3. Google stopped > working on GCC because they made a company decision to use clang instead. > That decision was made for technical reasons, not licensing reasons.
But note that some cellphone manufacturers (e.g, Samsung) have taken steps to prevent non-signed binaries from being loaded in their phones. This would have been problematic ("Tivoisation") if GPLv3 code was included in Android.