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Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023
56•Animux•2h ago

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dgellow•52m ago
> Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It's completely ridiculous and they've gradually become very slow at handling requests. They're in clear violation of the GPLv2 now.
rlpb•26m ago
Didn't Google work very hard to avoid any GPL in Android, apart from the kernel? What is in there that is GPL?
spydum•33m ago
isn't this just malicious compliance? not clear how this would violate GPLv2?
osmsucks•22m ago
Yeah, I agree. While this is a terrible move IMHO, from my superficial reading of the GPLv2 it doesn't really constitute a violation: the license imposes that the source be distributed to anyone who asks, potentially even charge a fee to cover its distribution costs, but it doesn't require that development happen in the open.
jmole•33m ago
“In violation of GPL” is a stretch.

Can’t imagine Google is making the process of obtaining source code easier on themselves though.

Android has always been more source-open than “open source”. The vast majority of community contributions that make it into the codebase are security fixes and small bug fixes.

Everything else is essentially all the work of Google and (to some extent) Samsung.

ajross•28m ago
> “In violation of GPL” is a stretch.

The originally envisioned distribution method, in fact, was "Send FSF a blank 9-track tape and they'll fill it and mail it back". Nor, obviously, does anything prevent someone who downloads this from Drive from mirroring it on GitHub or wherever.

This is arguably bad stewardship of a historically open source project. It's certainly not a license violation.

Brian_K_White•23m ago
It's paying a bill in pennies.
jsiepkes•4m ago
> Everything else is essentially all the work of Google and (to some extent) Samsung.

There is plenty in Android which isn't the work of Google. For starters the Kotlin implementation and the Java implementation (OpenJDK).

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