Comment by palata
5 days ago
Oh is it Apache 2? That's what I see looking at a random file [1] but there is no global LICENSE file.
And I didn't expect Android-Studio to be open source!
[1]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/sdk/+/refs/heads/m...
Yeah, they're Apache 2.0. That's how Android and some of its forks handle licensing.
For example, most repos in LineageOS's GitHub org lack a global LICENSE file. Instead, licensing is specified on a file-by-file basis within the comment headers.
This does lead to some ambiguity though. You can't put a license header into binary files like PNGs. In those cases, you can only trust that Google won't sue you for using them.