Instead of four times a year, Google will now only release Android source code to AOSP twice a year, once in Q2 and again in ...

The Android Open Source Project, built and released by Google under the Apache 2.0 license, allows third-party developers to ...

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

Google is planning a major change to the way it develops new versions of the Android operating system. Since the beginning, large swaths of the software have been developed in public-facing channels, ...