Yeah, I've talked with the Copperhead people quite a bit about this. They need revenue to survive, that is what's driving the decision to do this. People gotta eat and pay the rent in order to make free software :)
I'm hoping that this is a temporary measure. Having it non-free software does inevitably change the nature of any cooperation with them. As for licensing details: only the kernel is GPL, basically everything else in Android is Apache 2.0. They can of course only relicense their changes to Apache-licensed parts. .hc Chris Croome: > Hi > > So I found this thread on Twitter: > > - So here's the plan: the nougat-release branch will start off with a > non-commercial usage license, and migrate to GPL3 as it gets funded. > https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/769159098122240000 > > - The marshmallow branches will remain as they already are. Not much is > going to happen there beyond a few more security updates though. > https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/769164544090443776 > > All the best > > Chris > > On Sat 01-Oct-2016 at 04:46:07PM +0100, Chris Croome wrote: >> >> Where is this announcement? >> >> On Sat 01-Oct-2016 at 02:29:05PM +0200, ban...@openmailbox.org wrote: >>> The CopperheadOS dev made some announcements about changing the >>> project license to a non-copyleft commercial one. I don't know how he >>> can unilaterally relicense the code from two GPL'd upstream projects. >>> Do you know any more details about this? Will this change the >>> cooperation between the two projects? > -- PGP fingerprint: EE66 20C7 136B 0D2C 456C 0A4D E9E2 8DEA 00AA 5556 https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xE9E28DEA00AA5556 _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: guardian-dev-unsubscr...@lists.mayfirst.org
