> The deal also includes a non-exclusive license for HTC intellectual property

From the blog post, seems to be a license.

It seems there is a little different.

In the press release of HTC[1]

> Google will continue to have access to HTC’s IP to support the Pixel smartphone family

Is it means HTC only licenses IP to Google, not sells them to Google?

[1]https://www.htc.com/us/about/newsroom/2017/2017-09-21-htc-go...