Popular Android ROM Accused of GPL Violation

[wraggster]

A petition has recently been started to get the developer of the popular Android 'MIUI' ROM, Chinese based Xiaomi, to comply with the GPL (http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/11/android-community-demands-miui-rom-comply-with-foss-licenses/). While Android itself is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License, and therefore does not actually require derivative works to be FOSS, the Linux kernel itself is GPL-licensed and needs to remain open. Unless Xiaomi intends to develop a replacement for the Linux kernel, they need to make their modifications public."

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/11/21/014254/popular-android-rom-accused-of-gpl-violation