• Virkkunen@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    Google can decide all they want, but they can’t close source Android due to the GPL.

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      9 days ago

      https://source.android.com/docs/setup/contribute/licenses says most of the Android userspace is Apache 2 licensed. While they can’t close source the Android branch of the kernel, they could close-source new userspace code and it would probably diverge from the last open source release quite quickly.

      Realistically, that would probably be sufficent to make Android functionally closed-source, even if the GPL bits were still available.