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There is no point using java, when Oracle can sue you anytime for any reason. Time to get away from Java, if oracle wins.
by snambi 10y ago
There is no point using java, when Oracle can sue you anytime for any reason. Time to get away from Java, if oracle wins.
- dragandj 10y agoOnly if you violate Java's GPL license. Google took a GPL code and licensed it under a different license - that's why they are sued. So, even if Google looses, that basically strengthens the open source case AND Java, meaning that you can not hijack Java (GPL) and make its offshot non-free (in a copyleft sense).
- icebraining 10y agoGoogle took a GPL code and licensed it under a different license - that's why they are sued. The only code that was alleged to be copied were a few test files (which weren't even distributed) and a 9-line function called "rangeCheck". There was a second copyright claim on the APIs, but Oracle didn't claim the code was copied, just that the reimplementation had the same "structure, sequence and organization" (that is, same names and arguments).