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Unlike Linux, Fuchsia is not under GPL. Another attempt at making Android less open.



>Unlike Linux, Fuchsia is not under GPL.

It's under MIT (the kernel Zircon specifically since comparing with Linux). Whether a license allowing even more freedom is worse is arguable.


I know - it provides google the freedom to lock down the OS further and the freedom to implement proprietary drivers.

Yay for arguable freedom.


I love the freedom Android provides what with the utter clusterfuck that is the Linux kernel’s driver interface and GPL. Yay freedom.

An MIT license is fine. Great, even, because Fuchsia is in fact still an open source OS.

Hardware OEM’s don’t owe the public transparent firmware blobs.


>the freedom to implement proprietary drivers

That exists already. Vast majority of Android devices require binary blobs in kernel for essential functionality.


> require binary blobs

That's the point. With something like fuchsia there can be entire closed forks of the kernel instead of having to blobs, making closed source easier to develop.




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