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Isn't the license concern pretty major though? IIRC even in the current form Wine at the early age had been quite controversial, due to legal concerns. They con
by yokohummer7 10y ago
Isn't the license concern pretty major though? IIRC even in the current form Wine at the early age had been quite controversial, due to legal concerns. They consciously prevented those who have knowledge of Windows internals from contributing to it just to make sure it's a clean room implementation.
- mschuster91 10y agoIANAL, but doesn't OpenJDK basically do the same (implement documented API interfaces) with Sun's Java? And the Windows syscalls are IIRC also publically documented...
- comex 10y agoOpenJDK was/is an official Sun (now Oracle) project. But others did reimplement Java without authorization, such as Apache Harmony, and, well, I think you need to look up Oracle v. Google.