=>
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/05/google-responds-to-oracles-android-patent-lawsuit-we-break-it/
I find this excerpt summarizes the situation very well:
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* Google uses a subset of the Apache Harmony Java implementation
in Android.
* Sun open-sourced Java Standard Edition under the GPL in 2006 and
2007, but didn't include a patent or copyright license with the code.
In order to get that license, developers have to demonstrate
compatibility with the Java specification.
* The only way to demonstrate compatibility with the Java
specification is to use Sun's Technology Compatibility Kit, or TCK,
and Sun / Oracle and Apache have been bickering about the license for
the Java TCK, or JCK, for years. (That's putting it lightly, actually.
It's been more like a war.)
* The only license Sun ever offered Apache for the JCK included
significant "field of use" restrictions, including a restriction on
mobile phones.
* Because of these restrictions, Apache's never taken a JCK
license to test Harmony.
* Oracle used to be on Apache's side in demanding Sun loosen up
the JCK licensing restrictions, but that changed as soon as it bought
Sun out.
* Google thinks this is very bad, and that Oracle and Sun are just
big bullies who don't want Java to be open, even though being open is
super amazing.
==
The article then has additional points that are less in favor of
Google ;)
BoD
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