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		gress on March 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iOS 7.1 Nope. If you want to make an Android device, you must sign up for Google's service. You are free to fork AOSP for your own projects which must not be called Android, but that is the extent of the 'openness'.

Karunamon on March 12, 2014 [–]

Could you kindly link me to this? As far as I can tell, AOSP itself is under the Apache license, and terms like the ones you mention are incompatible with that license.

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