From my understanding Google is not selling the license. As is typical of Google's business model, they are simply concerned with driving traffic through their stuff and selling ads. If that means giving away things like phone OS's, well so be it.
And you would have a tough time proving that people are directly making money off of Android (besides app developers). While Android might be part of the attraction for a particular phone, so might be a number of other things. To say that Android was directly taking money from apple one would have to prove that it is specifically the android OS, and not something else (e.g. a preference of having a hardware keyboard, better processor, preference for a particular carrier or simply a disdain for apple), driving people to buy phone X over the iPhone
Again, just playing devil's advocate here. I think the US's patent laws are kind of ridiculous (we have biotech companies that are actually risking people's lives by hiding behind patents)
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