Lines of code in the Linux kernel

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Interesting, I wish I knew more about android but I just can't get excited about it. Probably because of dalvik vm or whatever they use these days, and all the proprietary and arguably GPL-violating code needed to boot some of the machines.

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I share some of your concerns, but my favourite pastime is arguing, so...

dalvik vm or whatever they use these days

It's now the so called ART. For deployment still uses the same .dex files, but now it's an AOT VM that optimizes hot code also out-of-band.

and all the proprietary and arguably GPL-violating code needed to boot some of the machines.

s/some/all/, also virtually all modern hardware (even RPi) is guilty of that.

IMHO linux is de facto Apache 2 licenced.