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Can this fall under system library exception?

For example if you're building mingw32 based GPL C app, you're linking to all kinds of windows system libraries and there's no need for them to be under GPL.

If this notification library is available to anyone on Android and is part of the Android system platform, can it be the same, like some DLL that does notifications on windows?



No it doesn't, because the code that receives push notifications isn't part of AOSP.


But my "system" isn't AOSP. It's my OEM's specific packaging of AOSP along with Google services and other components. Why should the line be drawn around AOSP specifically?


I think it depends on if the library is distributed with the app or with the system. In this case, the library would be distributed with the app I believe, meaning it would not be exempted.


I think this is true for GPLv2 but not for v3. But IANAL.




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