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This is fine. Amazon is just redistributing OpenJDK according to the terms of its license, which is indisputably legal. The problem with Android was that it wa
by pavon 8y ago
This is fine. Amazon is just redistributing OpenJDK according to the terms of its license, which is indisputably legal.
The problem with Android was that it was using, Harmony, a clean-room implementation of JDK whose license is incompatible with OpenJDK. It was believed at the time that APIs were not copyrightable, and thus that clean-room implementations were not derivative works. The courts disagreed. Now Google just uses OpenJDK for Android and they are back in the clear again.