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Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source

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Post by DannyBee »

aray wrote: post #10
xtreme wrote: post #2

The git repository is empty. The actual source is available at https://code.google.com/p/google-glass-kernel-source/downloa...

Unfortunately this is where most companies kernel pushes end (just the tarball w/ nothing else).

It won't. It will end up in AOSP when JBQ gets back. Due to some human scheduling snafus on my part, this didn't get done before he went on vacation. I simply don't know JBQ's exact method of doing git kernel pushes to AOSP, and i'm not going to possibly mess up the entire AOSP kernel tree to learn :).

Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source

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Post by joenathan »

songzme wrote: post #23
songzme wrote: post #14

Hope someone can clarify, I'm new at this. Does this mean that you can take this kernel source, modify it and/or add extensions, and then deploy it on your google glass?

anyone?

It wont boot without drivers for various pieces of the hardware, drivers that are developed by third parties and that are most likely closed source. Those drivers may be released at a later time as 'binary blobs'.

Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source

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Post by ajross »

edderly wrote: post #16
ibrahima wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know specifically about the drivers in Glass but it's based on the pretty old TI OMAP4 platform which was in the Galaxy Nexus, and I think out of the SoC manufacturers TI is (well, was, since they stopped making OMAP) the most open by far.

They'll be IMGTec blobs for the SGX GPU then edit/clarification: These won't be blobs in the kernel but they'll be IMGTec binary libraries. So in practice it's slightly less annoying for kernel hacking.

Right, the PVR driver kernel component is GPL. It's the userspace that is proprietary.

Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source

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Post by Maxious »

ya_anonym wrote: post #27

WTF is stopping from releasing it as GPLv3 license

The fact that Linux is licensed as GPLv2?

From the tarball COPYING file: "the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. -Linus Torvalds"

Which is identical to kernel.org: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/COPYING

That section was discussed at https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/273 where 2006-Linus doesn't see GPLv3 ever happening.

Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source

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Post by fosap »

abrahamsen wrote: post #26
myko wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate? I have no idea what you're referencing.

Probably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization

Yes, exactly. I'm confused why i get downvotes. HN seemed to be very spare with downvotes, but it seems to be overrun by google fanboys.
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