Re:Google Won’t Take Down ‘Pirate’ VLC with Five Million Dow...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @01:29PM
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> My question is, would they fight to protect the GPL licensing of Android if someone infringed it?
Probably not in many cases; they only use GPL where upstream forces them to; for their own original unconstrained work they tend to prefer permissive licenses rather than copyleft. They are probably willing to let the upstream that is forcing the use of the GPL bear the burden of enforcing it if they are concerned, and happier still if they generally don't making it permissive-in-effect.
Probably not in many cases; they only use GPL where upstream forces them to; for their own original unconstrained work they tend to prefer permissive licenses rather than copyleft. They are probably willing to let the upstream that is forcing the use of the GPL bear the burden of enforcing it if they are concerned, and happier still if they generally don't making it permissive-in-effect.