What would it be your feelings towards an hypothetical community project based on your AndroidHardeningArchive (at least, the unencumbered parts)?
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I have no plans to change the non-commercial usage license for the archived code, if that's what you consider encumbered. It's only the subset of the privacy and security features that were shipped in stable releases based on Android 8.x anyway. Most of the work isn't there.
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The current major release of Android is 9.0 and offers substantial privacy and security improvements over 8.x. The archived code would need substantial porting work. Many features were lost in the transition to 6.x, 7.x and then 8.x due to lack of resources to reimplement them.
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There has never been a community of developers interested in making substantial contributions to this kind of work, let alone taking on the enormous burden of making production quality releases of an operating system based on it. No one has stepped up to do similar work at all.
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TBH, I haven't checked the licenses, I've just assumed there could be some code in dispute that would be better to avoid/rewrite.
And even if it's just a subset of the privacy features, it sets the security bar higher than bare AOSP and LineageOS.
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Most of it would need to be overhauled or rewritten due to Android 9.0. I own the vast majority of the code and only small portions would need to be rewritten for me to change the licensing.
I already did it for reviving github.com/AndroidHardeni and github.com/AndroidHardeni.
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