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Intent and two dollars will get you a cup of coffee. The court will read the license that was written, not the one that Sun intended to write.



Yes and no.

If they actually wrote the wrong thing, then intent is irrelevant.

But if the meaning of a term is unclear, then you can clarify the meaning.




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