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Well to be fair you didn't say that in the linked tweet. Delay is bad too, but again the original spirit of the license was absolutely OK with the idea of weeks-long delays. Our modern world of instant github access has spoiled us, but courts are not going to see damages from just "we had to ship a month late" unless you can show something more specific.

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It's required for providing timely security patches. It's not hard to show why that's important and Google engineers have written plenty about it for us to cite. We've managed to avoid delays for security patches so far through reverse engineering and other workarounds. Having to invest time from developers paid to work on GrapheneOS in reverse engineering compiled GPLv2 code shows Google is violating the GPLv2.

Delay is frustrating, but not a violation. Just because you reverse engineered GPLv2 code doesn’t make that in violation of GPLv2, many people have done that for reasons that rhyme with yours over the decades. GPLv2 also doesn’t have any clause about security patches or if you have a requirement for a certain timeline. GPLv2 isn’t a “you agree to not be an asshole” license.

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