On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Jens <[email protected]> wrote:
> I do not believe this is correct - I am pretty sure Oracle's license is >> incompatible with Apache2 by design. In general GWT does not use any JRE >> code from Oracle, and instead uses code from Harmony or implements it from >> scratch. >> > > Interesting. Glad I am not a lawyer but I am just curious how GWT deals > with code that is so easy that you can not implement it differently than > Oracle when super sourcing it. Removing/changing JavaDoc is probably not > enough to justify changing the license header from x to Google? For example > take Cloneable, ClassCastException and similar simple classes/interfaces. > IANAL, but my understanding is the API is public so you can always reimplement the API - you just can't use their copyrighted code to do so. The simplicity of the implementation doesn't matter, it is whether you used their source or not. If there is only one reasonable way to implement something, it is harder to show that you copied their code, but if it is 1000 lines of complex code the odds that it would be essentially the same if you didn't copy it are very slim. -- John A. Tamplin -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
