On Tuesday 31 August 2010 10:58:47 Krittika wrote: The Oracle-google fight is a little more complex.
http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/ Sun released the JME under a "match-fixed" licence. This allows use of gpld code for a execution on JME Jit compiler (aka JME engine). However the jit compiler is not gpld. so any enhancements you may require to the JME engine will require a licence and per seat costs. To overcome this cost Google wrote Dalvik, which is a jit compiler similar in principle to any other interpreter (mono/.net, java, python), but with major enhancements for running on small devices AND capable of using code running on java ME engine. Dalvik is released under an Apache2.0 licence. Google was involved with Sun in enhancing Java and JavaME. So Oracle could claim patent violations and google could counter claim that these were it's own developments anyway. IMO, it will boil down to who signed what NDA. Moral of the story: Those who live by the NDA are bled by it. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
