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> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM, DanH <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I do wish that Sun had fully opensourced and open licensed Java > like they were planning to several years back. I'm guessing the > plan was killed when Oracle began negotiating with them. Java Standard Edition _is_ fully open sourced under the GPL+CPE license (Java Micro Edition is a different thing, but it's not related with Android). As fas as I understand, even though you open source a product, there's still the patent thing. Usually these are handled by having the license to grant users a perpetual right to use the technology guaranteeing that they won't be accused of breaking a patent. But this clearly applies only to people using the "plain" open Java made by Sun / Oracle. Back to the license thing, I suppose that Oracle might refer to the Java specifications and namespaces (the java.* thing). Probably, even though Google has never claimed that Android is Java and their implementation doesn't derive from Sun, the weak point could be the fact that Android uses a subset of the runtime specifications and namespaces. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxlqJEACgkQeDweFqgUGxd7LQCgkq+uB04uYEOgtnRlDBpTuXIr oxwAn2pPRrHaRWHa6TkeU+/Mo+YdrRAQ =ZvTF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
