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Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
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Google have been years seeing how far they can push linux GPL.
At this rate android will end up being closed source.
I have an even worse feeling about the LLM code in the kernel...
Considering that the big AI vendors do deals in behind the scene, Google is going to ask for same favors to try and retroactively relicense LLM slop code.