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You don’t see why forcing the open sourcing of the entire Google codebase would be a problem? That’s essentially what GPL does, if you use even a tiny portion o
by mav3r1ck 9y ago
You don’t see why forcing the open sourcing of the entire Google codebase would be a problem? That’s essentially what GPL does, if you use even a tiny portion of it for your code and they prove it, you have to GPL ALL the source code from the same for base.
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- infinity0 9y agoNobody is going to seriously argue that google3/ is a single piece of software.
- UncleMeat 9y agoWhen it is worth billions of dollars and judges often barely understand tech somebody will.
- amdavidson 9y agoDespite it being legal nonsense, it's all about finding the right Judge. Perhaps there is more bandwidth in Marshall, TX now that they don't have all those pesky patent cases.