News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google signs agreement with HTC. Parent comment

Re:Google signs agreement with HTC by vvanders on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @10:34PM (#15300180)
The bigger thing is the IP acquisition. That's largely why they grabbed Moto and then spun it out. With this they can skip the middle step.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google signs agreement with HTC by MBCook on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:00PM (#15300278)
Are we sure they actually get the IP?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google signs agreement with HTC by aeleos on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:10PM (#15300324)
> The deal also includes a non-exclusive license for HTC intellectual property

From the blog post, seems to be a license.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google signs agreement with HTC by ytch on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:13PM (#15300334)
It seems there is a little different.

In the press release of HTC[1]

> Google will continue to have access to HTC’s IP to support the Pixel smartphone family

Is it means HTC only licenses IP to Google, not sells them to Google?

[1]https://www.htc.com/us/about/newsroom/2017/2017-09-21-htc-go...

[ Parent | on HN ]