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The short term is forked android. The long term is a Linux distribution, new or otherwise. It doesn't seem reasonable to assume that the proprietary blobs in Android will get reverse engineered.
That will definitely be the focus. If Europe people can mandate making Android and Apple Ecosystems be opened to having real GNU/Linux or anything else they want to be able to be put on it then that would make huge changes to getting that to happen
The Free Software Foundation is actively working on this (reverse-engineering Android proprietary blobs, see Librephone project). It hasn't even been a year yet since they began, but I'm rooting for them.