* Posts by andrew3

3 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jul 2013

Google, please DRILL through Great Firewall of China with your HTTPS LANCE

andrew3

Less than 5%...

Do you know how many people live in China?

Top 10 Steve Ballmer quotes: '%#&@!!' and so much more

andrew3
Linux

Re: I realise this is totally childish, but ....

GPL prophet RMS already has an article on this:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom.html

FSF passes collection plate for free Android clone Replicant

andrew3
Linux

Apache license is approved by FSF

The Apache license is approved by the FSF:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2

The licensing concern is that Android includes non-Apache and non-free licensed sofware, specifically certain drivers and firmware blobs. And the parts that are licensed under the Apache license are regularly modified and released under a proprietary license by Android vendors.

By the way, Replicant contains a lot of the same Apache-licensed software. It is not a GPL-only campaign (although many FSF and GNU followers do prefer the GPL).