Google Android has a bone to pick with Oracle for problems of patent infringementJava. Things are complicated even further for the mobile operating system with this timea possible violation of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2) Linux kernel.
No complaints have been filed yet, but several experts on intellectual property issueshave charged. Google has failed to meet the particular copyleft. The Linux kernel can beused freely by the developers but they must respect a certain number of prerogatives.
Dear Richard Stallman, who is the source of the GPL, copyleft allows you to copy, use ordistribute such software code under the same conditions as the original code usedunder license. Conditions become blurred in the game of the emergence of morepermissive licensing Google Android which is partly based on Linux.
The case is complex. Google is accused of having copied instance of Linux kernel codeand have removed the comments of revisions, but the Linux code, without exception, islicensed under GPLv2. It is furthermore also criticized Google for not having made available the code that has changed.
For now, difficult to assess the scope of such charges. To some, Google may havefound a way to "degrade" the GPL Linux kernel.
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