ALL Devs Must Read --- XDA and the GPL

Everyone working with GPL -ed code, in our case the Linux kernel which is under the GPLv2, needs to understand how the license affects them, and the work they put out on XDA developers, to aid understanding a good write up of this issues has gone up on the portal, you can read it here;

XDA-Developers and the GPL

GPL compliance is taken very seriously on XDA, but at the same time I remind people to report anything via the proper channels rather than confronting anyone in public, which always does more harm than good.

A note to ROM developers:

• Using a non GPL compliant kernel makes your ROM non compliant and subject to removal.


• If you are using another developers kernel, linking to that kernels thread will make you GPL compliant (assuming that the kernel in question is compliant)