Has anyone worked out who committed it, and how much Oracle paid them to do so? :)
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
