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Re:Oracle Adds New Android Versions to Copyright Battle with... by ericmo on Thursday August 13, 2015 @09:59AM (#10054190)
If Android usage of Java is in violation of Oracle's copyright, than why isn't OpenJDK? I don't code much in Java and when I do I use Oracle's version, so I don't know how different it is, but I guess the "API" should be the same, no?

Also, I don't see how is it better for Google to be sued by Oracle than using OpenJDK just because it is GPL-ed. Why? It doesn't make sense!

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Re:Oracle Adds New Android Versions to Copyright Battle with... by papercrane on Thursday August 13, 2015 @11:55AM (#10055116)
> If Android usage of Java is in violation of Oracle's copyright, than why isn't OpenJDK?

OpenJDK was released by Sun as GPL.

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Re:Oracle Adds New Android Versions to Copyright Battle with... by ericmo on Thursday August 13, 2015 @12:42PM (#10055455)
Well, couldn't be simpler than that, thanks for clearing that up for me!
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