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B. Java is not licensed under the GPL. OpenJDK is.

• dragonwriter 9y ago
  OpenJDK didn't exist when Google developed Android, so it would have been very hard for them to use it.
  • dec0dedab0de 9y ago
    The 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