GrapheneOS android-prepare-vendor Android 12 port must not be used by CalyxOS · Issue #78 · AOSPAlliance/android-prepare-vendor
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You aren't permitted to use this code and it has not been made available under an open source license permitting you to use it as we did with our past code. Drop all of our Android 12 porting w...

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  • AgreeableLandscape
    61·
    3 years ago

    which graphene retaliated too by denying calyx the right to use their code

    If they’re actually open source, this should be literally impossible.

      • AgreeableLandscape
        3·
        3 years ago

        Talk about just throwing the licenses out the window. It’s still open source, since you can read it all to audit, but the use of the code is no longer free with attribution if they decide a single person cannot use it.

        Actually, most open source licenses (including GPL) have a clause saying that the freedoms granted by the license cannot be revoked as long as the user follows the obligations (namely crediting the author and making their changes open source).

        • m-p{3}
          2·
          3 years ago

          They can change the license for future releases, which would basically block them from using the updated source code.

    • zote
      1·
      3 years ago

      I’m no legal expert, but it’s something to do with the fact that the original code for this was not open source, and was written by a dev not associated with either project. Some Graphene dev updated it for android 12, under whatever license, which somehow meant they could tell calyx they couldn’t use the code for android 12. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Graphene are rewriting the code under a full OS license, which they said they would have no issue with calyx using that under the rules of that license.