Misleading headline. Instead of public repos, they’ll use source snapshots of each release. It’s technically correct because the development is going private, but the releases will remain open source.
Android is licensed under the Apache license 2.0, which is an open source license. Their Linux kernel modifications are licensed under the GPL v2. https://source.android.com/license
Accepting contributions is not required to be open source.
Misleading headline. Instead of public repos, they’ll use source snapshots of each release. It’s technically correct because the development is going private, but the releases will remain open source.
Isn’t that sources available, not open source since they aren’t allowing community contributions, or am I misunderstanding that?
Kind of like how greyjay is source available but not open source?
Android is licensed under the Apache license 2.0, which is an open source license. Their Linux kernel modifications are licensed under the GPL v2. https://source.android.com/license
Accepting contributions is not required to be open source.