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> So much for “open source” In the given context "Proprietary source code" seems to potentially primarily mean third-party proprietary source code which Google
by follower 2y ago
> So much for “open source”
In the given context "Proprietary source code" seems to potentially primarily mean third-party proprietary source code which Google doesn't have the rights to re-license.
There's further discussion about what was removed & potentially why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845102
TL;DR: Hardware support library source/blobs from CPU/MCU hardware vendor(s) with restrictive license/distribution constraints.
(Some of which may no longer apply to more recent versions of the vendor code in question.)