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Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity

Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity

Posted Jan 18, 2012 19:05 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity by jrn
Parent article: Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity

It's true, you generally can't revoke a license from something you've already released (it gets murky, depends on license and jurisdiction).

However, this change does affect everybody who now has to wonder what version of binutils they're using and where exactly they got it from.


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