On Wed, 09 May 2012 07:40:54 +0200, Kirk Pepperdine
<[email protected]> wrote:
+>> You can even take OpenJDK, fork it, change the API and redistributed it
under a new name and the same GPL + CPE license. No problems with the
copyright, maybe problems with patents (the old discussion about
whether GPLv2 protects enough or not).
Isn't this essentially what google did?
Not. They claimed they did a clean room implementation based on Apache
Harmony, but it turned out at least some files weren't a clean room
implementation. Note that the allegedly copied files weren't in Harmony
itself, which as a matter of our knowledge is really a clean room
implementation, and in fact nobody sued Apache. Oracle killed Harmony in a
different way, by means of a deal with IBM.
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