If the court ended up forcing Google to sell Android, shouldn’t we worry that its license as an open source project could be removed and then it become proprietary?

  • AtemuEnglish
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    11 days ago

    it seems to me Android devices are too important to just let them be abandoned if Google goes full-proprietary

    I wish it’d be that way.

    It wouldn’t just be volunteers. Many companies have a huge stake in this OS and would continue to contribute.

    If they don’t contribute now, I doubt they would then. They don’t have any incentive in making the AOSP better publicly because that also makes it better for their competitors.

    I think all the OEMs would have individual contracts for source code access anyways. It’s not like open source is the only possible model for industry-wide code collaboration.