This has been discussed before. The GPLv3 talks about patents explicitly. But the GPLv2 more or less grants you patent protection but does so implicitly. It states something along the lines of: The one distributing the sources will not impede use of it in any way.
As far as I know that clause has never been tested in court though (then again, AFAIK, neither has GPLv3's). On Dec 8, 10:32 pm, Greg Reddin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Audrius <[email protected]> wrote: > > The GPL > > license of OpenJDK provides protection against patents. Android can > > only be attacked because it is derived from the completely different > > base. > > I do not believe that is correct. OpenJDK is licensed under GPLv2. > Patent protection was introduced in GPLv3. It is my understanding that > the only protection that comes with OpenJDK is if your OpenJDK > implementation passes the TCK. > > Greg -- 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.
