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Google didn't use OpenJDK, they used Apache Harmony implementation

• mjw1007 10y ago
  That's true, but the availability of OpenJDK (which, after all, Google have now switched to) weakens Oracle's argument on the "Effect on the market" factor.
  • dragandj 10y ago
    But OpenJDK is GPL. If Google licensed their Android Java as GPL, I guess they'd be OK. However, Google's Java is NOT GPL.
    • wtallis 10y ago
      If the "structure, sequence, and organization" of APIs is a copyrightable work in its own right, then couldn't Google make a GPL-licensed derivative SSO (Android's API) but put their implementation under a separate license? Has anyone done a legal analysis of how the GPL's copyleft provisions would apply to this new kind of copyrighted work?
      • dragandj 10y ago
        No. Everything that gets linked to GPL has to be GPL.
        • bitmapbrother 10y ago
          That's not true. OpenJDK is licensed under the GPL v2 with the Classpath Exception.
          • dragandj 10y ago
            FYI, Classpath exception does not remove GPL from OpenJDK, or enable anyone to create a non-GPL JDK. It allows you to create Java programs that are themselves not GPL.
          • emiliobumachar 10y ago
            The Lesser GPL exists solely to allow linking to non-free programs. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.en.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.en.html
    • Oletros 10y ago
      Well, they used the license used by Apache Foundation when they developed Apache Harmony. They couldn't change the license