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I'm conflicted on this. A. I don't like that APIs are copywrite-able. B. I wish Google complied with the GPL anyway. I hate this anti-GPL sentiment that has b
by dec0dedab0de 9y ago
I'm conflicted on this.
A. I don't like that APIs are copywrite-able.
B. I wish Google complied with the GPL anyway. I hate this anti-GPL sentiment that has been going around the last 10 years or so.
C. The android play store would probably go through a renaissance if all the apps had to be rewritten.
D. I don't trust Google, but I really really really don't like Oracle.
- hasahmed 9y agoTaking sides of definitely a question of the lesser of two evils on this one.
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- guelo 9y agoB. Java is not licensed under the GPL. C. Not going to happen.
- merb 9y agoB. Java is not licensed under the GPL. OpenJDK is.
- dragonwriter 9y agoOpenJDK didn't exist when Google developed Android, so it would have been very hard for them to use it.
- dec0dedab0de 9y agoThe first commercial release of android was 2008, the first release of openjdk was 2006. It wouldn't be that hard to start with an openjdk repo, and delete all the files as you added in the davlik code. Release it as GPL, and call it a derivative work. Not that I think they should have to do that just for the sake of implementing the API
- curt15 9y ago>It wouldn't be that hard to start with an openjdk repo, and delete all the files as you added in the davlik code. Release it as GPL, and call it a derivative work. They've done just that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803775