That's what I was asking to myself : what if Google simply infringed Oracle copyrights by using Java specifications and namespaces ? Can APIs be copyrighted ?
If it's the case, what are the possible solutions beside paying royalties to Oracle ? And then, why is the Wine project allowed to implement the Windows API without retributing Microsoft (as far as I know) ? François On 13 août, 22:18, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org > > <mailto:danhi...@ieee.org>> wrote: > > I do wish that Sun had fully opensourced and open licensed Java > > like they were planning to several years back. I'm guessing the > > plan was killed when Oracle began negotiating with them. > > Java Standard Edition _is_ fully open sourced under the GPL+CPE > license (Java Micro Edition is a different thing, but it's not related > with Android). As fas as I understand, even though you open source a > product, there's still the patent thing. Usually these are handled by > having the license to grant users a perpetual right to use the > technology guaranteeing that they won't be accused of breaking a > patent. But this clearly applies only to people using the "plain" open > Java made by Sun / Oracle. Back to the license thing, I suppose that > Oracle might refer to the Java specifications and namespaces (the > java.* thing). Probably, even though Google has never claimed that > Android is Java and their implementation doesn't derive from Sun, the > weak point could be the fact that Android uses a subset of the runtime > specifications and namespaces. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxlqJEACgkQeDweFqgUGxd7LQCgkq+uB04uYEOgtnRlDBpTuXIr > oxwAn2pPRrHaRWHa6TkeU+/Mo+YdrRAQ > =ZvTF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
