I chatted with Mark M. offline and I would like to clarify a few things. First, I agree that leveling charges of license violations is serious, personally I doubt Google is that stupid. I'm merely pointing out that when Romain gave a link of released GPL distributions, they were all outdated, so I didn't think it was a valid response to Andre. Google doesn't need to do an actual archived distribution, if the modified code is in the git repository. The only people that are in a position right now to verify anything are the OHA and other individuals with access to the distributions.

What I can say that if Google is having these accusations leveled against them, it is because of their dual open/closed policy they are following; in a sense wanting to have one's cake and eat it too, regardless of the legality. It's also a sign that Google is eroding the goodwill of their community to the point where members do not trust them to do the right thing.

Thanks, Shane