From what I see, Aliyun is not a fork of Android. It's Linux-based and
binary-compatible with Android in that it has Dalvik and runs standard Android
packages, but the OS itself is based on Linux directly and wasn't derived from
Android.
And I suspect that's the key to the thing: Google would be OK
with a non-Android OS running non-Android apps and not dealing with Google's
services. What they have heartburn with is a non-Android OS running Android apps
and from what I can tell trying to appear as if it were Android (including down
to running some of the Google apps). If I were Google, I wouldn't want any part
of that either. It'd be like a Windows developer trying to support a Windows app
running on what was advertised as running Windows apps but in fact is Wine
running on Linux. If I were that developer, I'd similarly say to a reseller "You
want to do that, you're on your own. I'm not renewing my contracts to support my
software on your systems, I'm not going to renew my agreements to provide you
with extra internal documentation, and if anyone calls me and they're using one
of their systems I'm just going to tell them I can't help them and they should
call you.". I could in theory keep things in place for their real Windows
systems and only refuse to support the Wine ones, but inevitably they're going
to try to wiggle in through the real-Windows-system support line and it's just
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