Licenses. Open Handset Alliance, abgerufen am 21. August 2016 (englisch): „The preferred license for the Android Open Source Project is the Apache Software License, 2.0. […] Why Apache Software License? […] For userspace (that is, non-kernel) software, we do in fact prefer ASL2.0 (and similar licenses like BSD, MIT, etc.) over other licenses such as LGPL. Android is about freedom and choice. The purpose of Android is promote openness in the mobile world, but we don’t believe it’s possible to predict or dictate all the uses to which people will want to put our software. So, while we encourage everyone to make devices that are open and modifiable, we don’t believe it is our place to force them to do so. Using LGPL libraries would often force them to do so.“
