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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 of it for your code and they prove it, you have to GPL ALL the source code from the same for base.


Nobody is going to seriously argue that google3/ is a single piece of software.


When it is worth billions of dollars and judges often barely understand tech somebody will.


Despite 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.




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