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by edgardcastro 5284 days ago
Most of the Android (and Google's code) is licensed under Apache License V2 which DOES allow proprietary redistribution.

There are portions GPL'd indeed (Kernel for example), but saying that Google should take action on it is over the top to me. If that happened people would start the "GOOGLE IS EVIL AND IS SUING SMALL INDEPENDENT MANUFACTURERS!" mantra for sure.

Android (name and logo) are trademarked by Google and cannot be used without explicit permission. They can however use "for Android".

Also, the Android robot is under CC-BY license. No harm done here.