Starting next year, Google plans to require all apps installed on certified Android devices, including sideloading, to come from developers it has verified. Many Android developers see the move as a power grab and have started a movement to “Keep Android Open.”
The petition, organized by software developer Marc Prud’hommeaux, seeks to rally support to challenge Google’s plan and to rouse regulators to the antitrust implications of allowing Google to oversee the verification of all Android developers working with Android Certified devices, but does not affect alternative Android or ASOP builds like /e/OS, LineageOS, or GrapheneOS.



Funny that the guy spearheading the movement is called “Prud’hommeaux”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Court_(France)?wprov=sfla1
It has a french meaning and is related to labour courts.