On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:14 +0100, Antonio Cuni wrote: > On 15/02/11 11:52, Massa, Harald Armin wrote: > > Antonio, > > > > > > Anyway, back to the original topic: what would python offer more than > > java for > > android? > > > > a much less challenging licence-situation. > > I'm not completely sure. > AFAIK, the Oracle-Google lawsuit is about patents, not licences: in > particular, they are complaining about how Dalvik is implemented, not about > the fact that it implements Java. > > >From what I could read at least a couple of those patents apply to PyPy as > well (and to whatever language with JIT, fwiw), e.g. IIRC there is one about > "compiling an optimized version of code that executes often" or something > similar (whether this patent is valid is another topic, of course).
FWIW, I haven't read that patent and i doubt Armin who invented Psyco ages ago and many parts of PyPy, has. Or other people inviting JIT-compilers since 1970 for that matter :) Being safe from patents is probably impossible, at least in the US. Still the situation with PyPy should be better as we didn't start with code that had patents already mentioned left and right. But let's try to not discuss patents and licensing too much. I am fine with it being a potentially pro-pypy aspect :) best, holger _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
