no you are are right - it is about VM patents. But I think the leap might be if GWT is presumed to be "java" and it doesn't have the patent protections that are outlined when you use GPL java (or an oracle java) then it could be vulnerable.
There are some alleged copyright things as well, but the patents are the bulk of it. But non of the facts really bother me - so much that Oracle would *do* this to the community. On Aug 15, 4:02 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > Am I dense, or is everyone just misinformed? > > Oracle attacked google on the basis of VM patents. > > How is this even remotely relevant to GWT? > > On Aug 14, 4:45 pm, David S <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > It comes to mind that Oracle could have some of the same problems with > > GWT's use of Java that they have with Android. With GWT, Java is > > compiled to an intermediate format (Javascript vs dex) and that > > resulting code is run on a non-standard virtual machine (Javascript > > engine vs Dalvik) on a machine that may not have a licensed JVM > > installed. Also, GWT only supports only a subset of the Java class > > library and there is a non-standard JNI like extension to the language > > for executing Javascript from Java code. > > > It's making me think twice about recommending GWT. In fact it has me > > thinking about a move to non-JVM/Java languages generally; something I > > wouldn't have considered a month ago. > > > There probably wouldn't be the big payoff for licensing Java for GWT, > > so Oracle might not even be interested. It is also possible that > > Google has an agreement with Sun/Oracle about GWT already. I have no > > idea about that. > > > Still, it just creates a lot of uncertainty about the future of Java/ > > JVM based stuff for me. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
