Nemeski@lemm.ee to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 1 month agoExclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's whywww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down13cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up169arrow-down1external-linkExclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's whywww.androidauthority.comNemeski@lemm.ee to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square25fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareSplendid4117@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoGoogle is still planning on giving them the code; that’s in the article
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoAndroid is GPL so I don’t see how that would really work Although they could pull a Red Hat
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI 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.
minus-squareMarkaos@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoNobody’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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Google is still planning on giving them the code; that’s in the article
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Android is GPL so I don’t see how that would really work
Although they could pull a Red Hat
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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.
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.