If we look at the GPL, especially v3 (which, as I've mentioned before, is NOT OpenJDK's license, that's GPL2!), then being an offshoot of OpenJDK means you're safe, period. Android is *NOT* an offshoot of OpenJDK. That's the point.
Looking at the GPL v2 license itself, which does not appear to involve any patent protections, and the patents used by oracle to sue google, Oracle can apparently sue you right now for using official java. On Sep 9, 9:31 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. :) What I am fishing for is, at what point between the OpenJDK > and an Android stack would lawyers have a case? > > On Sep 9, 9:19 pm, Wayne Fay <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > 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? > > > You mean add another emitter to pl2c, right? ;-) -- 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.
