[derrida]

Can anybody comment on how the Navy restriction to US citizens only developing this plays into the FOSS ecosystem of Android? I assume most of it is GPLv2, so isn't this immaterial? Why would it matter when the code is completely FOSS?

[mpyne]

Because it's a legal and/or regulatory requirement, which are not required to make sense in the scope of unusual market environments, let alone normal ones. :-/