Android faces serious huddle because of Linux copyright issue

Here is a bad news for all Android lovers, developers and all Android based device manufacturers as Android is deep down into another serious copyright issues.

With more that a dozen patent suits over Android, Google's mobile operating system seems to be clouded with serious intellectual property issues. In one of the suits, Oracle has claimed that Android infringes on a lot of java copyright codes. It led to the legality of the central element of Android, its architecture itself which connect Android Application to the Linux Kernel.

As per the claim, Google copied 2.5 megabytes of code from more than 700 Linux kernel header files with a homemade program that drops source code comments and some other elements, and daringly claims (in a notice at the start of each generated file) that the extracted material constitutes no copyrightable information.

Google's no copyrightable material claim for the Android OS has become vitally questionable. Once Google is proven wrong which is most likely to occur, then the entire software stack on Android including popular games and other apps all will be published under GPL. Everyone will become free to use, modify and redistribute the affected software.

It will not only bring down the price of Android based devices but also there would be no more revenue opportunity for the developers of the affected applications.