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You can't have your cake and eat it, too

You can't have your cake and eat it, too

Posted Sep 11, 2010 6:07 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: You can't have your cake and eat it, too by qubit
Parent article: FSF responds to Oracle v. Google and the threat of software patents

> There was no way for Sun to release a flavor of Java under the GPL while imposing an additional condition as to the particular family of devices on which it may or may not run.

They could if they believed that the 'GPLv2 implicant patent license' is rather weak.


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