honkthegoose
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3 years ago
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on: Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
GPL is on phones, every Android phone runs Linux kernel and many apps use GPL'd libraries. The problem is that the vendors often don't respect the license, and increasingly are locking down the devices so that even if you do get the source code, it's not much use in terms of applying your own modifications.
honkthegoose
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3 years ago
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on: Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
Now try running your own build of Linux on a phone, or similar devices. It most probably won't work, because the likes of Qualcomm, Mediatek, Samsung, Huawei, Apple have locked down the hardware so you can only boot digitally signed firmware that matches public keys fused into the device. And that firmware does the same when loading the rest of the OS.
