Is Android a Gpl?

Within Android, Linux the kernel remains a separate program, with its source code under GNU GPL version 2. … Google has complied with the requirements of the GNU General Public License for Linux, but the Apache license on the rest of Android does not require source release.

What software uses GPL?

Pages in category “Software using the GPL license”

• AbiWord.
• Adblock Plus.
• Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
• Ansible (software)
• Aptana.
• Astrolog.
• Audacity (audio editor)

Is Java a GPL?

With Java it’s no different; if your program links with a GPL . jar, it is considered a derivative as far as the GPL is concerned. LGPL also works as intended with Java. The typical arrangement for Java is that each library an application uses is distributed as a separate JAR (Java Archive) file.