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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:303888 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I see a possible GPL issue here -- but since I don't know Android, I > can't tell whether it is really an issue. > > What does the icu library do? ICU provides internationalization support for the libxml2 library (which Emacs depends on to parse XML data.) > Does it qualify as a system library according to GPL version 3? No. > Are the Android.mk files source files? > Are they omitted from recent versions of the library? Android.mk files are Makefiles that tell the Android build system how to build a library. Android themselves have ommitted those files from their source code, as they now use another build system called ``soong'' which uses a different format, but for obvious reasons Emacs can only use the Make-based build system. Older versions of the Android version of icu4c contain Android.mk files.