Jeffrey Blattman wrote: > the big deal is that the license does not grant the right to > re-distribute. this is pretty standard for a closed source license. > > while it's true that most (all?) android phones come with the google > apps today, there's no requirement of that and it may not be the case in > the future. mr. cell phone maker can take AOSP and build their own dist > and choose not to include the google apps. google doesn't want mr. happy > phone owners to be able to install a 3rd party dist that includes the > google apps. why not? because mr. happy vendor didn't license the apps > from google, and the apps weren't tested on mr. happy vendor's hardware.
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