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Wouldn’t Oracle have standing if what Red Hat did was a license violation? Why would they risk that? There’s an old joke that Oracle is a company of lawyers w
by lockhouse 3y ago
Wouldn’t Oracle have standing if what Red Hat did was a license violation? Why would they risk that?
There’s an old joke that Oracle is a company of lawyers with a small software engineering department.
- gizmo686 3y agoWhy would Oracle sue them? There is almost nothing for them to gain if they win, and a long and expensive court process regardless.
- lockhouse 3y agoThis move by Red Hat was aimed squarely at them. It makes it much more difficult and expensive for Oracle to make their RHEL clone.
- gizmo686 3y agoOracle sues Red Hat for violating one of Oracle's licenses. Red Hat comes into compliance and shares the source of whatever Oracle IP is in RHEL. I'm sure Oracle can find some IP of theirs in RHEL, but I don't think they own enough to be useful.
- lockhouse 3y agoYeah, just OpenJDK, MySQL, and btrfs, nothing important, right? https://github.com/oracle https://github.com/oracle