• nlgranger@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Google has stopped releasing parts of android as open source and it releases some as a code dump without the modification history to make harder to use. Android forks are going to struggle to keep up.

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      I wonder if any and everyone who has ever contributed code under whichever open license was used could sue the tits off google, not as a class, but thousands upon thousands of individual lawsuits, for breach of terms of said licence/contract.

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        2 hours ago

        GNU only stipulates that the code must be released. Whether it is as an inconvenient dump of a well structured code history is not specified.