• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    There’s a difference between an order contract an a license.
    The license to make Arm CPU was granted to Nuvia not to Qualcomm.

    Qualcomm using the license, is the same as transferring or selling it, and that’s NOT normal with a patent or copyright license. Except if it is kept within the intended scope.

    Qualcomm taking over the license changes the scope, and that would usually be clearly enough to invalidate it.

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      No, there is not.

      Buying a company because they have a license you want is not remotely unusual. It’s perfectly standard behavior, and the entire enterprise world would fall apart if an acquisition lost the rights to licenses the purchased business owned.