-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/15/10 01:37 , Christian Catchpole wrote: > Could you argue that Open Sourcing technology that is protected by > patents is a form of entrapment? Sun did this, and Oracle may not > have done the same but that's what they purchased. > > "Your Honour. We attempted to protect our patent by encourage > people to download the source, modify it and redistribute it. How > were we expected to know they might actually do it?" > But it's different. If you download the OpenJDK, modify and redistribute it you can't be prosecuted on patents because you're given patent protection by the license. I think we should be positive on this, otherwise the whole open source concept could be attacked. Indeed, the licensing guys thought about the patent problem, of course. What you - according to Oracle - can't do is to use parts of Java (in the broad sense) in something that hasnt't been derived by the OpenJDK.
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