> From: Chris Penn <[email protected]> > > This is why GPL is sooo much better.
from the article you sent: "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." So from what I gather, it would have meant that if Google had chosen that path, every single app in Android would have had to be a GPL app... not a very attractive option
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