Recent reports have suggested that Android may not be 100% open source as previously believed, although Google have now quashed those rumors by stating that Android will infact be 100% open source.
ZDNet have a nice little Android article where they look further into the open source licensing criteria:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=579
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I confirmed with three different Google employees at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco that the core Android platform will be 100% open source. Even multimedia codecs, which historically are held close to the vest will be open. Except where noted, everything will use the Apache software license (ASL v2). This is the same open source license used by projects like the Apache HTTP server, Tomcat, Harmony, and many other large projects in the open source community.
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