Hi :) There is currently a court-case about this between Oracle and Google. Oracle appear to be claiming that code released and patented by Sun and released under a GPL has been copied by Google for use in Android. The OpenJDK is not independent of Oracle.
>From the IBM website http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/newto/ "OpenJDKOpenJDK is a free and open source implementation of the Java programming language, available under the GPLv2 license. In October 2010, IBM, previously the main corporate contributor of the competing Apache Harmony project, formed an alliance with Oracle to support OpenJDK and create a single, stable platform for Java development."So 'IBM Java' is tied to Oracle too. Ok, in theory being on a GPL means the code could be forked from by any other project or organisation but Google appear to be in hot water for doing just that. The court-case as proposed by Oracle is based on who holds certain patents and seems to be avoiding the issue about licenses. I don't understand the ins-and-outs and haven't even read GrokLaw about it so the articles i base my personal opinions on could easily have got completely the wrong story and then i have "read between the lines" and arrived at something even more inaccurate. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 17/4/12, e-letter <[email protected]> wrote: From: e-letter <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: disappearing letter To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 17 April, 2012, 12:51 On 16/04/2012, NoOp <[email protected]> wrote: > > You keep promoting earlier versions of Java, I guess you've not heard > what happened to Apple for not updating their Java versions: > Off-topic, but why don't people using ibm java and openjdk more? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
