You are asking Google to act like an idiot in an environment where it is being attacked on all sides with patents by proprietary goon companies determined to destroy FOSS.

Google has made no claims that this is a FOSS license. It's not. The question is, can FOSS developers rely upon it without sacrificing protections FOSS licenses provide? And the answer is yes.

That's about as good as it gets, currently, in the ugly patent universe. And as SFLC points out, this is the best license in existence for this category.

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