Black Duck identified 3,800 new open source mobile projects launched in 2010 alone, and 55 percent of them were based on Android.
Even single projects used within Android, like Bionic or WebKit, can have more than a dozen licences attached to them, some of which may not be certified by the Open Source Initiative, said Vescuso. The obligations in these licences apply to device makers and independent developers, not just Google, he says.
Some developers violate their licenses when they make a change to Android and do not, for whatever reason, share those changes with the rest of the community.
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