[pp.int.general] Open Source Hardware Project

[Glenn Kerbein]

Unfortunately, the kernel is not under the GPLv3, which prohibits
Tivoization. :\
Thanks for clearing up the G1 info though.



On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 23:01 -0500, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> The Google
>     Android sort of accomplishes this, but it is not completely open, only the
>     software is.
> 
> Android is a program which is release by Google as free software.
> 
> However, the Google G1 phone is different from Android.
> It contains non-free programs.  For instance, I think it contains
> a non-free, tivoized version of Linux, the kernel.  I think its
> copy of Android is also non-free in this way.
> 
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