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Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity

Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity

Posted Feb 1, 2012 0:56 UTC (Wed) by dashesy (subscriber, #74652)
In reply to: Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity by dlang
Parent article: Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity

yes, it's silly, and mostly it's a case of management being lazy and not knowing what's going on, but at the same time it's a very real effect
And even lawyers who prefer to take the easy side. Specially if the companies are not exactly software companies, management has less knowledge about software. GPlv2+ blurs the line here. At least for smaller companies, these stories just scares them away.


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