Gist: “Evidently, starting next month, all external code contributions to AOSP will require approval from two Google reviewers before they can be submitted.”
Gist: “Evidently, starting next month, all external code contributions to AOSP will require approval from two Google reviewers before they can be submitted.”
You are free to fork AOSP and maintain your own fork if you have the resources.
Unfortunately not many people / organizations do or have the stomach to commit to doing that, and that’s how Google is able to maintain a tight grip on what is supposed to be an open source project.
Goes to show you the importance of lineage os
Well…lets pretend that with SafetyNet they don’t enforce people to stay away from Foss android. I mean, yes, I am running DivestOS, but a lot of APS are not working because they need Google Play Services. Some other they don’t even want you to have an unlocked bootloader. Most of Android devices do not support relocking your bootloader…
Google’s tight grip is because of Google play services, not AOSP. Without Google play services AOSP is useless for 99% of people.
Not quite: Google is quietly but very definitely busy gutting AOSP of anything nice and up to date. The dialer for example is becoming hopelessly outdated. And the reason for that is because they’re trying to transition as many nice, free default AOSP services to their non-free, functionally better but Google Play Service-tied equivalents.
The problem with that is that nobody really has the resources to counter their efforts and come up with good open-source alternatives to what Google is slowly removing or letting rot in AOSP. As a result, AOSP is slowly becoming more and more unappealing.
Of course that’s exactly what Google wants: they milked open-source for all it was worth to drive the wide adoption of Android, and now it’s in their way. They would like nothing better than to kill off AOSP tomorrow but they can’t do that. So instead, they’re boiling the frog slowly until it’s too late to do anything about it by the time it notices that the water is too hot.