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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.
by 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 agoBut 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 agoIf 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 agoNo. Everything that gets linked to GPL has to be GPL.
- bitmapbrother 10y agoThat's not true. OpenJDK is licensed under the GPL v2 with the Classpath Exception.
- dragandj 10y agoFYI, 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 agoThe 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 agoWell, they used the license used by Apache Foundation when they developed Apache Harmony. They couldn't change the license