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google will take control of android in the future.
Kevin Kofler
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03-18-2025, 06:22 PM (This post was last modified: 03-18-2025, 06:25 PM by Kevin Kofler.)
AOSP is not GPL-licensed. It is Apache-licensed. Theoretically. In practice, it is mostly useless without proprietary hardware driver blobs. The only really FOSS distributions of AOSP that I know of are GloDroid and Replicant. All the other "de-googled" AOSP derivatives use the exact same proprietary driver blobs the official Android build for the same device uses.
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RE: google will take control of android in the future. - by Kevin Kofler - 03-18-2025, 06:22 PM

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