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trollbridge 3 hours ago

Kind of interesting - basically exempts any OS that’s under an MIT or GPL licence…

… doesn’t that excuse Android and possibly XNU, too?

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antiframe 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is all the code running on my Google Pixel 10 licensed under GPL and/or MIT?

I think we have our answer.

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hnlmorg an hour ago | parent | next [-]

What are they defining as an operation system? It’s a term that has fuzzy edges as a technical term, and given laws are usually piss poor at defining technical terms, I can’t see it being well defined in CA law.

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Telaneo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So if you load AOSP and don't use Google Play Services, then you're exempt?

	▲	antiframe 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I would hope so.

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user_7832 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think there's a lot of proprietary stuff, from Google Play Services to Pixel specific features. A very significant stack of "modern" software layers are proprietary, even on Android.

	▲	thefreeman 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think that was his point
	▲	realusername an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Modern open-source Android doesn't even include a working keyboard nowadays so...

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TylerE 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No, Android is Apache 2.0.