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Welte: Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter)Welte: Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter)Posted Nov 6, 2009 22:10 UTC (Fri) by trasz (guest, #45786)In reply to: Welte: Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter) by pboddie Parent article: Welte: Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter)
I was replying to the claim that Google is _needlessly_ scared about the GPL license. There is no reason to assume their knowledge of the GPL license is in any way worse than the FSFs.
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Welte: Android Mythbusters (Matt Porter) Posted Nov 9, 2009 12:51 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
Well, they can be "needlessly scared" on behalf of their telecoms partners, who tend to be needlessly scared about a bunch of stuff, albeit stuff which is often of their own making.
Google's "LGPL violation fly-by" involving ffmpeg and the redistribution of works under exclusive patent agreements might sit well within Google (and show that their lawyers think they know where the loopholes might be, albeit ones that have been closed in later versions of the licences concerned), but their partners might back off at the prospect of doing similar things with products that have their name on it.
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