Google shutting down independent Android image developers?

Or.....
They can sign him up as a licensed redistributor. That would also protect their licenses. But he would undoubtedly have to agree to some sort of restrictions to become a licensed redistributor.

We really don't know what options are open to Google. If there is some code in those blobs that they have licensed from others...they may actually be themselves forced to act in a certain way to stay in compliance as a licensee of third party code.

Yet another example of why proprietary code is problematic.

-jef