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The GPLv2 is only a copyright license, not a patent license. Some open-source licenses do require you not to enforce any of your patents that might be used in
by mdasen 12y ago
The GPLv2 is only a copyright license, not a patent license. Some open-source licenses do require you not to enforce any of your patents that might be used in the product, but the GPLv2 does not.
As others have pointed out, this tablet isn't from Microsoft, but even if it were from Microsoft it wouldn't matter because no patent rights are conferred by the GPLv2.
- rbanffy 12y agoIf I grant you the unrestricted use of my software and grant you the right to further grant all the rights I granted you to others, how can I enforce a patent license without breaking the terms under which I licensed the software in the first place?