Have many Android vendors lost their rights to distribute Linux?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 15, 2011 4:34 PM EDT
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Have Android OEMs violated the GPL and now forfeited the right to distribute Linux? Does section 4 of the GPL version 2 mean that many (if not all) Android vendors have already lost their rights to distribute Linux? According to an IP litigator, the answer is yes. Edward Naughton, litigator and partner with the lawfirm Brown Rudnick believes that by refusing to make freely available the GPL’d portions of Honeycomb, Google is forcing its OEM partners into a situation of non-compliance with the GPL.

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