Alex Fernandez <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Tomasz Konojacki <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Good question, I was wondering about it too. In my opinion, if Android is >> free software (its >> source code is publicly released under free license) we should allow >> projects that are >> depending on it. Of course, I'm not most competent person on earth to speak >> on this topic. I >> would be happy to read opinion of someone more competent. > > I think so too. Speaking as someone interested in the theory (but > certainly not more competent than you!), as long as the dependency is > on the Free software part I don't see how we can reject it based on > our own rules. Sure, Android may need some additions to build a free > phone out of it; but that happens with almost all Free software. Even > the GNU project is not complete and independent as it needs a kernel.
The question is not whether Android requires aditional software to be useful but whether it can be used with only free software, for otherwise Android-specific projects can't run on a fully free enviroment which is a requirement in GNU Savannah. By the way I, there is the GNU HURD.
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