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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They cannot take back the open license code. Only the future work is closed.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

And they aren't (for now) changing the license of future work either - just not releasing source until the same time they release binaries, which is totally allowed in the open source licenses.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I.E. they would have to change the license of Android. Not sure how they are going to do that when the Linux kernel is GPL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

They could close everything except the kernel and maybe a few libraries here and there. The Linux kernel alone does not exactly get you close to having an Android distribution.