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Qualcomm Defeats Arm’s Claim Over Chip Design License Breach (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
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[–] conciselyverbose 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

No, there is not. A license is just a contract.

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.