Comment on Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)
garbage_world@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoAOSP is open source, android isn’t
Comment on Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)
garbage_world@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoAOSP is open source, android isn’t
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
I might have misunderstood that all those years, but custom roms like graphene or lineage all use the AOSP source to build “their” stuff on top. Android itself is all the proprietary shit google adds and probably bunch of proprietary firmware drivers, which isn’t relevant in the slightest if you switch to a supported device.
garbage_world@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not quite, but I would accept that.
AOSP is an open source OS based on a Linux kernel. Importantly, it is not a linux distro. GrapheneOS and LineageOS are downstream, open source derivatives of AOSP. Android is the same, but is proprietary.
Android isn’t just what is added on top of AOSP, just like Ubuntu isn’t just things added on top of Debian, but a complete OS.
Hope that helps
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s roughly what I thought, in which case switching to graphene (or any other custom rom) would completely “release” you from the proprietary grasp of google and their genius ideas. Because even if they add this 24hr lockdown in the AOSP-Project, graphene could rather easiely revert that change in their fork.
garbage_world@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes. Most of those AOSP forks still use elements of android (google play services) for compatibility reasons.