-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/15/10 20:18 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > Groklaw's post on this is up, and they'll continue coverage too. > Joy! > > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100813112425821 Interesting, even though there are some naive points:
You seem to be missing the point of why Google didn't just use the GPL'd JavaME. Sun deliberately removed the Classpath exception on JavaME specifically because they saw that most of their licensing opportunities were on mobile platforms. This meant that any *application* developers targeting a GPL'd JavaME platform would be forced to GPL their applications. Not surprisingly Google saw this would be undesirable when trying to attract developers to the platform. Well, I suppose that everybody knows that JME is GPL without CPE and what's the reasons are for that: get license fees. Thus the decision of not going with JME has nothing to do with attracting developers, because the only reasonable way for a corporate that wants to build upon JME is to have a dual licensing, if not other for indemnification issues. Which makes the GPL virality a non issue (also because JME has attracted tons of developers, and the reasons for the complaints and its decrease of popularity are merely technical and - guess what - there is plenty of non GPL JME apps around). Also, that sentence doesn't explain why Google didn't use JavaSE, considering that Android is more similar to SE than ME, and SE is GPL _plus_ CPE. The reason is obviously the same, that is that in practice Google would have needed dual licensing and still pay money to Sun. Thus, the quoted sentence is completely irrelevant to the problem. - -- 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxoPYwACgkQeDweFqgUGxf8PgCggm4Xf6cqdgU3x47K7o4LUxTd gacAniNl4KBYdKdT1cSyP8mkxLqMejjV =rtVl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
