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The last part about patents is not true. The OpenJDK has a patent pledge in it. Google even started incorporating OpenJDK into Android to protect itself from th
by jsiepkes 9y ago
The last part about patents is not true. The OpenJDK has a patent pledge in it. Google even started incorporating OpenJDK into Android to protect itself from the patent case. The whole patent case with Oracle was not about OpenJDK but about Dalvik / Harmony, Google's own Java-like implementation.
- zaphirplane 9y agoHarmony was an IBM driven project
- atemerev 9y agoCould you please point me where the patent pledge is? I can't google it, and its license is GPL2, which is not patent-protected.
- danieldk 9y agoThe GPLv2 has an implicit patent pledge: 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License. In particular: You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. Of course, whether it is enforceable may be a different question (IANAL).
- throwawaybbqed 9y agoDidn't Java go big around 95? When do the main patents expire? Or is the issue copyright around the language/APIs?