And to continue the thought experiment; suppose I join Jan's
interesting PL/2 project and decides add another emitter to javac, one
that outputs Dalvik compliant byte-code?

On Sep 9, 9:09 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote:
> In theory, they wouldn't come, as that's legit according to the
> license. You do have to give full credit and you'd have to release it
> under the GPL as well.
>
> IANAL.
>
> On Sep 9, 8:38 pm, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I know there has been *many* messages already about last day events
> > regarding to the future of Java. Although certainly inspired by it, I have a
> > question that is not about Java or any other language. So please, *don't* 
> > waste
> > this thread into something else. Thanks.
> > *
> > *
> > * *
> > Suppose I want to create a new programming language PL/2, whatever my
> > reasons for that...
>
> > 1) I download OpenJDK (I know it's great).
> > 2) I rename every "java" into "pl2". (I know I can't call it "Java").
> > 3) I republish the thing as an open source project OpenPL2.
>
> > How fast can I expect lawyers to knock on my door ?

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