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Google v Oracle comes to mind.
by Sir_Cmpwn 8y ago
Google v Oracle comes to mind.
- pjmlp 8y agoGoogle should not have tried to screw Sun, they still had the option to buy Sun and choose not to.
- lima 8y agoDidn't Google end up importing OpenJDK code?
- pjmlp 8y agoPartially, you cannot pick a random jar from Maven Central and be confident that it will work on Android. They only support part of the standard library, the OpenJDK parts have been cherry picked and not all are made available on the same Android version and then there are the bytecodes that were introduced since Java 7. And for Java language support, you need to have Android Oreo version of ART as not all language features get desugared into older versions. There is some AOSP activity related to Java 9, but so far Google has been silent if there will be any further improvements beyond Java 8.
- repolfx 8y agoGoogle basically won that, didn't they? Despite cloning another companies technology from scratch without paying any kind of licensing fees at all.