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The Oracle lawsuit is based on the Java ME licensing restrictions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_Java#Licencing_restrictions http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

The Oracle lawsuit is based on the Java ME licensing restrictions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_Java#Licencing_restrictions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_Java#Licencing_restric... A pure BSD license does not have these restrictions.

pyre 14y ago
Originally, the Oracle lawsuit had some patent claims in it, IIRC. They were thrown out though. I can't recall if they were thrown out by the judge or if Google spent the time/money/lawyers to get them invalidated.
- jlgreco 14y ago
  Any open source language, even those not affiliated with a company, could be vulnerable to that though. Now, in this particular case (for those who can digest legalease): http://golang.org/PATENTS http://golang.org/PATENTS
  - chimeracoder 14y ago
    IANAL, I don't think that's true for the Apache license, because it includes a clause that explicitly reassigns patents (or at least licenses any relevant patents).
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