title: Openess of source code/drivers android phones
body: <p>How open is the source code of android phones? I cannot think of a way that manufacturers can close their drivers, because they have to conform to the GPLv2 as the License of the Linux kernel states. Or do they use write a large part in user space code, where they can choose their own licence?</p>
  
  <p>The information I'm trying to get here is: How difficult is it to get a "cheap" smartphone (htc wildfire-s) and run Linux on top of it full featured. What I mean is every hardware feature is easily accesible without having to implement your own drivers and reverse engineer the device (assuming that the device is rooted).</p>