Re: Android port (was: gnulib fsusage)

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> [2023-01-28 10:50]:
> On Fri, 2023-01-20 at 09:19 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:47:34 +0300
> > > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > > Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > > 
> > > * Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2023-01-19 17:28]:
> > > > First, we need to decide whether we indeed want to have this in Emacs.
> > > > Android is not a free platform, so when its support comes with a lot
> > > > of additional non-trivial code that we'd need to understand and
> > > > support/maintain (including a lot of Java), we had better discussed
> > > > that first.
> > > 
> > > Replicant is free platform.
> > 
> > That fact is not relevant to this discussion.
> 
> I think the point Jean meant to make is that Android platform per se isn't
> closed, even if the unfortunate situation is that many vendors ship a lot of
> closed code, mainly drivers (tho situation with closed drivers is slowly
> improving, Google seem to be working on that).

Yes, Eli mentioned "Android is not free platform", and I have
mentioned Android-based fully free platform.

LineageOS is not free that I know as it includes non-free drivers or something.

-- 
Jean

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