Thread: Samsung Captivate - Samsung is OPEN-SOURCING their drivers and other code!
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2010-08-05 , 21:55
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
I did say "some builds" The point is there has to be some glue between the custom userspace and the kernel (plus, no vendor uses just a plain kernel - some tweaks are necessary). The bottom line being there has to be SOMETHING that is open and available, otherwise they are violating the kernel licensing.
Yeah...the kernel itself could be open--and none of the drivers or apps have to be open. Remember that GPLv2 permitted tivoization and closed-source driver modules, and thus all they would have to open and make available is just the plain old Linux kernel.