On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Terrence Bull <[email protected]> wrote:
I do wonder how Google makes Android open source yet requires everyone that > makes ‘copies’ to be connected to the Play store. Do they have some sort of > special open source license they use? > No, the license is straight Apache 2.0, except for the proprietary parts that control the radio and the sensors. Google's leverage over Android manufacturers comes from the Android trademark, which they license only to OEMs who follow their rules, and from the fact that they give advance copies of new releases to those same OEMs. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan [email protected] Don't be so humble. You're not that great. --Golda Meir
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