Re: Android port (was: gnulib fsusage)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 10:50:02 +0300
> 
> 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).
> 
> The link Jean posted is just one of (free and open source) derivatives of
> Android platform. The other one very popular comes to mind was CyanogenMod,
> which later was succeeded by LineageOS.

Since the absolute majority of Android devices out there are non-free,
the fact that a small number of free ones exist is not relevant to
the main points of this discussion.