So, are we going to get any European alternatives to android?
This is why open source should use the GPL license.
GPL wouldn’t prevent this in any way. It doesn’t compel you to provide source unless you’re also providing binaries. That’s exactly what they’re going to do, only show their work upon release. Not defending that choice, just explaining that it would be perfectly GPL-compliant.
Sooo ACSP?
"…Google isn’t changing the speed at which these new builds arrive. Rather, this will potentially streamline the process and prevent conflicts when merging the branches.
This does not mean that Google is making Android a closed-source platform, but rather that the open-source aspect will only be released when a new branch is released to AOSP with those changes, including when new full versions or maintenance releases are finished."
Is this the end of Graphene and related AOSP builds?
I wonder what this will do to grapheneOS. I was just about to flash it on my phone this weekend.
Yet another example of companies circling the wagons
It says in the article the code will still be released in the same way it’s been for ages.
I understand that.
But the development will be in closed branches.
That has a greater chance of causing pains when GOS devs are adjusting these new features right?
Because now you, theoretically, have no upfront information about whatever bloatware google is about to inject in.
They didn’t before this only affects code changes going from AOSP to Google’s private branch, which is going away. Code from Google’s private branch to AOSP is unaffected. Custom ROMs are all just down stream consumers of AOSP repository anyways.
I’m trying to degoogling my life for quite long time. This is what is curreently missing:
- wallet: only apple, samsung and google solutions out there for all Europe. There is a EU project that unfortunatlely cannot be used in the UK. I mean, to understand how sick the system is, think that most of all credit cards out there are owned by the US.
- Family link, something to managed kids devices
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wallet: my current solution is Garmin Pay. For that you need a compatible Garmin watch. Once the card is added to the watch, all the payment is done without even passing by the phone, just communication between watch and payment terminal. Garmin watches work really very well with Gadgetbridge. Cards have to be added via the Garmin App, and possibly via a phone running a stock OS (mine didn’t work from the aftermarket ROM, but may be bank dependent)
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Family Link: For other options you may need to do a factory reset and install a device manager app, that then needs to be enabled via ADB. Or use a custom ROM. No pleasant options out there.
There’s hope for the wallet thing in the future.
https://f-droid.org/packages/net.taler.wallet.fdroid/
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html
