On 13 August 2010 22:05, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Oracle is only suing Google because Google is redistributing Java
> without paying them, and because they're using a modified version (so
> technically they're not covered by the patent grants), and because
> Google has deep pockets.  It's pretty implausible that they'll sue
> users and developers directly.  If they do, Wikimedia has little
> enough money to be extremely low on their list.  I don't think we need
> to worry about this one way or the other at this point.


I wasn't aware of "if we can probably get away with it" in the WMF
guidelines regarding free software.


- d.

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