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Android is not proprietary. https://source.android.com/ https://source.android.com/ That makes it rather easier...
by lproven 3y ago
Android is not proprietary.
https://source.android.com/ https://source.android.com/
That makes it rather easier...
- Qwertious 3y agoYou linked to AOSP, not Android. AOSP doesn't have things like the Google Play Store; the shipped image is substantially different and isn't necessarily open-source just because it contains open-source components - Windows contains BSD networking code but that doesn't make Windows open-source.
- _ea1k 3y agoSure, but the vast majority of those mods and alternative distributions are based on the sources that are available. It is a bit like a Linux distro running Steam. Yeah, there are proprietary bits, but the FOSS part naturally happens on the FOSS parts.
- lproven 3y agoYou know what the "A" in AOSP stands for, right? :-) All I'm saying is that there's a big difference in jailbreaking an OS when most of the source code of that OS is publicly available for study and experiment. Surely that is not a controversial statement?