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		microtonal 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors... the VM/runtime need to be open source Isn't ART Apache 2-licensed? They don't have to provide the source. I don't see why they would completely close it though. It would lead to forks, plus they have a lot of control through Google Play Services etc. already.

fweimer 11 months ago [–]

Parts are GPLv2 with Classpath exception:

https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/...

merb 11 months ago | [–]

yeah it’s mostly the runtime which is basically openjdk bits.

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