A few days after Google’s actions against the CyanogenMod project a group of Android developers formed the Open Android Alliance. Their goal is to replace all closed source and proprietary applications found in the bas Android install with open source applications that can be freely distributed. As they state:

We don’t have anything against the existing closed applications, however, we believe in open platforms and want all users to be able to modify their systems as they see fit.

Above all, remember, we are NOT “Anti-Google”. We are “Pro-Android”. Please act accordingly when posting on this project.

Code license is currently under GPL v3 due to familiarity and because GPL ensures that code based on project’s code will remain open source  for ever. Although this is not a final decition yet.

If developers would like a different license, I’m open to suggestions.

Tickets for replacing Android Market, IM Client, Mail client and other application are already open.