So you're saying that it grants users of the GPL code an exception from the patent owned by the original developers? In that case, wouldn't the exception only

So you're saying that it grants users of the GPL code an exception from the patent owned by the original developers? In that case, wouldn't the exception only be extended to Google if their implementation of Java was not independent from Sun's implementation? Because Devrak was derived from Apache Harmony, it might not share any code with Oracle Java.