It makes sense. It future-proofs androids ongoing legal viability. If they haven't yet settled with Oracle then it also strengthens their negotiating position o

It makes sense. It future-proofs androids ongoing legal viability. If they haven't yet settled with Oracle then it also strengthens their negotiating position on the issue of damages for copying API signatures. Thanks Appeals court! It also makes sense in light of Google's recent announcement that they are going to be shipping a desktop android os with chrome on it soon. Unlike in 2008, Google no longer has to worry if phone vendors care about whether the runtime is GPL+classpath, which was probably the original motivation for an apache licensed runtime. There is still however, the mystery of why the commit is missing the openjdk LICENSE file, or any mention of Oracle at all.