Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans

Re:Google is about to make life more difficult for custom RO... by eloisant on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:11AM (#36518124)

Yes, but this title is much more clickbait than just "Google stops developping 2 open source apps".

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Re:Google is about to make life more difficult for custom RO... by mavhc on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:36AM (#36518677)

if only they were open source, then anyone else could take over

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Re:Google is about to make life more difficult for custom RO... by candiodari on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:53AM (#36520397)

Yeah it really shows why the GPL is necessary.

"You can see this apps, and you can develop for them. But you can't use them on your own device ..."

GPL explicitly demands that a method is provided to replace the binaries on devices that the software runs on. Which is one of the reasons the tech giants are so opposed to it. The other reason is cloud.

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Re:Google is about to make life more difficult for custom RO... by mavhc on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:39AM (#36534683)

I was joking, I don't see a reason you can't use them on your own device

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