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>>joseph+(OP)
This really reminds me of Open Solaris.

> We will no longer distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating system in real-time

In the case of Open Solaris, the code never came out from that point onwards. For Android, the likely end goal is to do the bare minimum of distributing only copyleft code that they don't own copyright to. Until those get replaced with a closed alternative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2482s

>>sorami+yj
Can someone just fork it? Like MySQL was forked into MariaDB?

>>EGreg+5r
Yes: https://illumos.org/

>>fmajid+Jr
This doesn’t appear mobile oriented, or is this an open Solaris fork?

I suppose lineageOS is the closest thing for Android tho from what I understand it is built upon AOSP

>>jazzyj+hX
Yes, an OpenSolaris fork. I thought that was the "it" you were referring to, as that was what the parent was talking about.

There are quite a few AOSP forks, like LineageOS and GrapheneOS to cite the most famous ones, but with this change in process by Google, they will have to wait a year of no changes, then scramble when the next release of Android drops.