On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:47:06 PM UTC+1, Jens 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.
>>
>
IANAL but code from https://github.com/ThreeTen/threeten had a liberal 
license IIUC.
 

> 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.
>

Remember the Oracle/Google case about Android vs. Java? Redux: APIs are not 
copyrightable and "obvious implementations" are not an issue. 

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