Android is release under the Apache 2.0 software license, so legally speaking it is Open Source Software.
Practically speaking you can go and do this: mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make and you have a your own compiled android on your linux box. Google not being very transparent in the way it releases its code to the community doesn't make it closed source. Regards, -- Markus On Aug 6, 2011, at 11:16 PM, Hari Kurup wrote: > On 4 August 2011 23:56, Kyle Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Google publicly admitted that Honeycomb is closed source. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Licensing > > Not quite. They have not categorically say that it is "closed source". > That would be in violation of the GPL. > They claim that they are simply DELAYING release of the code till the > next version. Unfortunately the GPL doesn't specify a hard deadline > when source code should be released, and that is a loophole the "Don't > be Evil" guys are exploiting. > But as Tim has pointed out multiple times, there are third party > vendors such as ASUS and the like who have played by the rules and > released the honeycomb kernel code to the public. > > -- > Hari > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way.
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