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If the patents are sold, is the promise no longer enforceable?

If the patents are sold, is the promise no longer enforceable?

Posted Jul 18, 2009 1:00 UTC (Sat) by mikov (subscriber, #33179)
In reply to: If the patents are sold, is the promise no longer enforceable? by Ed_L.
Parent article: The FSF warns (again) against Mono

Sadly, I actually think that Java being under GPLv2 is not a permanent license to use. Briefly, there is an opinion that since GPL is not a contract, it can be revoked retroactively.

See this old post of mine fore more details:
http://slashdot.org/~cecom/journal/153146


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