• pathos@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Pretty much nothing, because 99% of what everybody uses is proprietary blobs on top of Android anyway. The Andriod open source is absolute minimum barebones, with MS Paint like UI and basically no UX.

  • MoreZombies@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I think it would still be a good question to ponder, even though that isn’t what has happened yet.

    What IF Google decided future versions were closed source? How would that not affect our open source alternatives?

    • Virkkunen@fedia.io
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      7 days ago

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

      • CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 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.