• eric5949@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    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.

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      8 days ago

      I was thinking more about the additional development time and how far behind open source devs would be vs OEMs. Having all development be closed leaves a sour taste either way.

    • Markaos@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 days ago

      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.

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        8 days ago

        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.

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              8 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.

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          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.