Link to full articleBARCELONA: FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia announced its debut Android smartphones at Mobile World Congress (MWC) on Monday, the Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL.
So Nokia as a wholly owned subsidiary is distributing Android. Which means they are distributing Linux. Which of course means that they are bound by the GPL.
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Should be a good positive defense of infringing Microsoft patents on that code which is included in the Nokia version of Android (not all of which is under the GPL but the core is).
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