How so? I doubt many ROMs are based on code that isn’t part of an Android release. Surely GrapheneOS devs can just use the Android 16 branch once it’s released to make an Android 16 version of GrapheneOS.
Nobody’s saying that Google won’t give them the code, though. Nothing is moving to closed source, Google just isn’t going to be showing the current work-in-progress code for the next release to the public.
How so? I doubt many ROMs are based on code that isn’t part of an Android release. Surely GrapheneOS devs can just use the Android 16 branch once it’s released to make an Android 16 version of GrapheneOS.
Well if they move large portions of the project to closed source aosp would have to diverge if google isn’t going to give them the code.
Google is still planning on giving them the code; that’s in the article
Android is GPL so I don’t see how that would really work
Although they could pull a Red Hat
Red hat got away with it so I imagine more companies will, google included.
I really hope the courts put a stop to it at some point. There are a few active cases at the moment and US courts historically have backed the GPL.
Nobody’s saying that Google won’t give them the code, though. Nothing is moving to closed source, Google just isn’t going to be showing the current work-in-progress code for the next release to the public.