[guardian-dev] CopperheadOS Re-licensing

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Yeah, I've talked with the Copperhead people quite a bit about this.
They need revenue to survive, that is what's driving the decision to do
this.  People gotta eat and pay the rent in order to make free software :)

I'm hoping that this is a temporary measure.  Having it non-free
software does inevitably change the nature of any cooperation with them.

As for licensing details: only the kernel is GPL, basically everything
else in Android is Apache 2.0.  They can of course only relicense their
changes to Apache-licensed parts.

.hc

Chris Croome:
> Hi
> 
> So I found this thread on Twitter:
> 
> - So here's the plan: the nougat-release branch will start off with a
>   non-commercial usage license, and migrate to GPL3 as it gets funded.
>   https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/769159098122240000
> 
> - The marshmallow branches will remain as they already are. Not much is
>   going to happen there beyond a few more security updates though.
>   https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/769164544090443776
> 
> All the best
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Sat 01-Oct-2016 at 04:46:07PM +0100, Chris Croome wrote:
>>
>> Where is this announcement?
>>
>> On Sat 01-Oct-2016 at 02:29:05PM +0200, bancfc at openmailbox.org wrote:
>>> The CopperheadOS dev made some announcements about changing the
>>> project license to a non-copyleft commercial one. I don't know how he
>>> can unilaterally relicense the code from two GPL'd upstream projects.
>>> Do you know any more details about this? Will this change the
>>> cooperation between the two projects?
> 

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