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+Additional IP Rights Grant (Patents) |
+ |
+"This implementation" means the copyrightable works distributed by |
+Google as part of the Go project. |
+ |
+Google hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, |
+no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) |
+patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, |
+transfer and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of this |
+implementation of Go, where such license applies only to those patent |
+claims, both currently owned or controlled by Google and acquired in |
+the future, licensable by Google that are necessarily infringed by this |
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+infringed only as a consequence of further modification of this |
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+entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging |
+that this implementation of Go or any code incorporated within this |
+implementation of Go constitutes direct or contributory patent |
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+rights granted to you under this License for this implementation of Go |
+shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed. |