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The future of Android as an Open Source project

If the court ended up forcing Google to sell Android, shouldn't we worry that its license as an open source project could be removed and then it become proprietary?

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Any part that is already open source will eternally be open source. Furthermore, there are rules about using open source code in projects that requires them to also be open source.
i think it would probably go the other way. google has closed down so much of the android core system that they would probably respond to the court by opening those parts back up.