Would GPL help?
Would GPL help?
Posted Aug 12, 2011 6:20 UTC (Fri) by simlo (guest, #10866)Parent article: The mobile patent mess may get worse
GPL would help a little: If you distribute GPL'ed code our can't sue other for violating patents in the same code, right?
Unfortunately, only the Linux kernel and a few other things are GPL in Android.
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