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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I'm continuing the work and what I need is funding to release it under permissive licenses so that I can continue working on it and other people can use it. I'm simply not offering any licensing until then:
github.com/AndroidHardeni
github.com/AndroidHardeni
github.com/AndroidHardeni
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Well, LineageOS has a healthy community, and I guess a subset of it would be interested in an hardened Android.
But, yes. Ideally, the effort should be supported by some trusted foundation (, ?).