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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Wonder how it will affect custom Rom developement like GrapheneOS.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (9 children)

It won't kill it immediately but if anyone wants to keep it going it's going to further and further diverge from real Android over time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How so? I doubt many ROMs are based on code that isn't part of an Android release. Surely GrapheneOS devs can just use the Android 16 branch once it's released to make an Android 16 version of GrapheneOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well if they move large portions of the project to closed source aosp would have to diverge if google isn't going to give them the code.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Google is still planning on giving them the code; that's in the article

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I'm sure that'll change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Android is GPL so I don't see how that would really work

Although they could pull a Red Hat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Red hat got away with it so I imagine more companies will, google included.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I really hope the courts put a stop to it at some point. There are a few active cases at the moment and US courts historically have backed the GPL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Nobody's saying that Google won't give them the code, though. Nothing is moving to closed source, Google just isn't going to be showing the current work-in-progress code for the next release to the public.

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