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Have many Android vendors lost their rights to distribute Linux?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 6 comments
ZDNet; By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 		Mail this story
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Have Android OEMs violated the GPL and now forfeited the right to distribute Linux? Does section 4 of the GPL version 2 mean that many (if not all) Android vendors have already lost their rights to distribute Linux? According to an IP litigator, the answer is yes. Edward Naughton, litigator and partner with the lawfirm Brown Rudnick believes that by refusing to make freely available the GPL’d portions of Honeycomb, Google is forcing its OEM partners into a situation of non-compliance with the GPL.

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Comments (6)

JaseP ·
Quick! Write a NEWS story before checking facts!!! ... How does ZDnet do fact checking, anyway??? The comments are very entertaining, though...
tracyanne ·
I see that Florian Mueller is now an Open Source Advocate as well as a Patent expert. There's no stopping the man.
JaseP ·
If you say that the sky is green enough times, it may actually change colors...
tracyanne ·
It does change colours, usually around sunrise and sunset. Although I have seen a rather pretty shade of green just before a severe hailstorm.
jhansonxi ·
Actually it just takes the right chemical composition of pollution.
helios ·
Actually it just takes the right chemical composition of pollution.

Ah, I see you've visited Mexico City...

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