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(Tedious disclaimer: not speaking for anybody else, my opinion only, etc. I'm an SRE at Google.)

> But doesn't Google tries to avoid GPL?

No.

> I think they're pretty anti-GPL with Android, and have some rules against inclusion of GPLed components there, besides the kernel.

OEMs don't want their hardware support to be GPL-encumbered. See https://source.android.com/source/licenses.html

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That's picking some major nits: whatever you want to claim is Google's internal mental opinion of GPL, the reality is they are building Android to cater to hardware manufactures, and those hardware manufactures do not want GPL, so Google has actively avoided GPL code in Android, often going to extreme lengths to build half-asses reimplementations of things that have perfectly stable GPL implementations so they don't have to rely on code using that license.

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