Still need to pick a non-commercial usage license for nougat-release. Any external contributions will use the normal Android licensing.
GPLv3. It's technically FOSS but sufficiently scary to all commercial users that you can still do fund-to-relicense.
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It's already used as the license but it's not working. Companies aren't even contacting us about products depending on the OS.
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It would force them to pay for a license if they wanted to sell a product with a locked bootloader, but doesn't do much else.
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Pretty much can't use a FOSS license if we're going to be getting revenue from companies not seeing value in contributing back.
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Need more bargaining power even with the companies that do want to contribute back in some way. FOSS really isn't working here.
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Happy to do away with FOSS purity by having a non-commercial usage license if it can make the project sustainable, and seems so.
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Can still have all the sources available and it doesn't impact things like landing code upstream (already requires relicensing).
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