[maemo-developers] Android Vs. Maemo

[From: Tollef Fog Heen]

* Klaus Rotter 

| vicente garcia wrote:
| > Hi, how you think Android will affect Maemo?
| > I suposse that Maemo has a lot of posibilities of be installing on a phone,
| > then...
| 
| Android is distributed under Apache License. This means (to me) it can't 
| use GPL or LGPL code.

Just to correct this: Software under the ASL can use LGPL-ed code just
fine.  Think Apache HTTPd running on a normal Linux installation.
glibc is LGPL, Apache is ASL.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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