On 10/28/2010 11:18 PM, Craig Kelley wrote:
Also note the absence of generics in the Apache version. This is
something you would lose, coming from a class file.
The 'jad' hypothesis seems convincing:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dxmvr/oracle_google_directly_copied_our_java_code/c13qfov
Now, it this gets proved, I'm wondering about two blasting consequences
of the thing:
1. What if part of the guilty code comes from an IBM donation to Apache?
It would be IBM's fault, right? Would Oracle pursue IBM after the deal
of the past week?
2. It would also be a violation of the GPL licensing, and the FSF
foundation should stand up to protect the GPL - so, apparently they
should back Oracle. Right?
3. Would be the FSF entitled for asking to release the whole Harmony
under the GPL (+CPE) license? In cascade, wouldn't be Google forced to
do the same? And, this is my point, couldn't be this the strategy by
Oracle (btw, they would have just to call for the enforcing of rules of
one of the most popular FLOSS licenses - difficult to argue that they're
running against the community)? In the end, they would get the Java
parts of the Android runtime licensed in the same way of the OpenJDK.
What effect would have this to manufacturers and carriers endorsing Android?
Interesting times.
--
f.g.
--
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.
