FUCK

>>105569525 (OP)
false, per gpl android can not be close source and Google misr provide a working open source version of it

Just use one of the Chinese forks.

>>105569549
>um chud thats wrong it says here in the rules that the people who are bad have to follow the rules and could never ever break them with corruption
open sauce once again proven to be cucks

>>105569549
>per gpl
hopefully trump kills the gpl and all the variants.

Huawei wants to know your location

>>105569549
android isn't gpl, retard bro

>>10556952
cant wait to use the china numba one os HARMONY

HAIL TO CP , LONG LIVE XI JIN BIG DICK

>>105569525 (OP)
custom rom pajeets in shambles

>>105569613
The linux kernel, which AOSP is built upon, is.

>>105569613
android uses linux

Why would Google do this?

>>105569613
The kernel is, so the rest of the system necessarily must be also

>>105569676
They aren't releasing the device trees for pixel devices anymore. They'll release the kernel, which is fine, but they won't to release the specific drivers or configuration or user land or anything like that.

>>105569776
That's not how that works at all.

Come home, white man.

>>105569849
>gnome
gnope

>>105569525 (OP)
the writing have been in the wall for like a decade. honestly i am surprised it took so much

DOJ save us

>>105569549
Google is going to hire hitmen to shut them up

>>105569549
>>105569676
>>105569776
Android is cobbled together from various pieces, Linux is under the GPL but userland is under Apache, and mostly worked on by Google; we still get access to whatever the last FOSS version was, but given that Google is pretty much the only one working on it, there aren't enough people in the world to do something useful with it

>>105569864
Didn't even know that's GNOME but you can use any other DE/WM.

>>105569849
I'm not buying another one of these just for it to shit itself at the worst time A THIRD TIME.

>>105569776
>>105569676
Yes, they use the Linux kernel, but they don't modify it, instead they build software on top of the kernel

>>105569949
DoJ wants google to divest from Android. So Google choose to stop work.

>>105569525 (OP)
This is because of the new EU phone mandate
>security updates or corrective updates mentioned under point (a) need to be available to the user at the latest 4 months after the public release of the source code of an update of the underlying operating system or, if the source code is not publicly released, after an update of the same operating system is released by the operating system provider or on any other product of the same brand;
Yeah, phone cabals decided to make android closed source and split android to a new company instead of comply to the EU

iPhone, here I come.

What ever happened to fuscia? Wasn't that supposed to be google's eventual plan to lock down their phone os?

>>105569525 (OP)
Nobody owes you anything, especially not a large corporation. They were kind enough up until this point with boing android and chromium being foss, it's time to shut the valve closed, no more freebies for foss piggies who are disrespectful and ungrateful.

>>105571456
Turns out Pajeets can’t make good software.

Should I still get a P9P and install Graphene?

>>105571486
Kek who woulda thought

>>105569549
So they dump the kernel source code and call it a day.
Everything Google does is under cuck licenses like BSD and MIT and they are free to close those whenever they feel like.

If Linux would have used GPLv3, this wouldn't be an issue... but they refused to go v3 for exactly that reasons: Corpors would be sad.

>>105570126
>they use the Linux kernel, but they don't modify it, instead they build software on top of the kernel
This kills further official updates

>>105570195
So they basically made it closed source to avoid having to release updates in any specific cadence? They can just update a vendor once on its entire lifetime and technically comply with this? basically killing any chance of any open source option being able to compete against them? How much money you think the corps paid for this?.

>>105570175
If they wanted good boy points, wouldn't making Android an independent non-profit (While keeping Play Services) be a better move?

>>105571520
>they are free to close those whenever they feel like.
This is a half-truth, you can make a GPL program closed-source if
>You wrote it entirely by yourself
or
>Contributors are bound by a CLA (Basically a document that says "We won't accept your contributions unless you hand over all rights to us)
Naturally, this only applies to future versions, if Program 1.0 is GPL, and you suddenly decide that Program 2.0 is proprietary, Program 1.0 is still gonna be bound by the GPL. All of this also applies to MIT/BSD, the only thing that changes is that you don't need permission from contributors, because their contributions are under MIT/BSD, and naturally can be included in Program 2.0 even if it's proprietary
>If Linux would have used GPLv3, this wouldn't be an issue
The only thing Linux being GPLv3 would cause is every phone having an unlocked bootloader (Which would be great, but that's beyond the scope of this discussion).
Linux's license doesn't really matter because it only interacts with other parts of the OS via syscalls, if it mattered, GNU/Linux wouldn't be possible, as the GPLv2 is incompatible with GPLv3 or later; and when GNU switched to v3 or later, companies didn't stop shipping Linux, they kept using Linux and replaced GNU with stuff like Busybox

>>105569525 (OP)
based, freeturds btfo

>>105569849
Stop shilling that absolute garbage with a fake blueshitboard with a shitty PMOS install

I'll probably use a terminal version of android in the future lol. Why would I need more?

Goddamn I fucking hate Google, every time I think they might be evening out in their shittiness they get worse.

seems like it was just fear mongering for attention: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/

>>105569525 (OP)
>pixels are usually mid-tier ok phones without anything fancy because they're meant to serve as a standard for others to build upon and as an example for other phone companies
>take away the example
what's the point of owning a pixel phone now? its not like they had competitive hardware.

>>105570126
Android is highly modified and largely incompatible with mainline linux

>>105569525 (OP)
They don't want you to see the AI stuff they're gonna put in to rape your privacy.

>>105569525 (OP)
>move to android thinking it's more open
>everything is closed
>most vendors have locked bootloaders
>Chromecast receiver SDK is all closed while you can run an Airplay server anywhere

Yea.

>>105569525 (OP)
just open it

>>105569525 (OP)
old news

literally exactly what freetards wished for
literally exactly what freetards deserve

>>105573420
based

>>105573420
Replaced with what? MacOS? I doubt Apple would like to make affordable devices, and most companies don't wanna build stuff from scratch if they can. Linux would likely live on as part of ChromeOS-esque OSes, which honestly seems like a worse fate than dying off

>>105574176
literally every company just uses whatever free slop google gives away and ships it 10000% locked down with zero bootloader access unless you have a double phd in CS and electrical engineering

>105573420
>open image
>chatgpt
>close image

I'll wait for MentalOutlaw to tell me what to do and how to feel.

>>105575022
seething

>>105569549
Who do you think is sueing google if they do otherwise? Stallman? Don't you think he needs the money for his cancer recovery to become full open source-santa clause again to rant against big players while eating shit off of his feet?