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Re:Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to... by irq-1 on Thursday August 13, 2015 @01:16PM (#10055731)
> OpenJDK itself can be forked

Tell that to Google.

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Re:Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to... by satai on Thursday August 13, 2015 @01:24PM (#10055786)
Android wasn't fork of OpenJDK
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Re:Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to... by anonbanker on Thursday August 13, 2015 @08:37PM (#10058016)
but Dalvik was.
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Re:Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to... by satai on Monday August 17, 2015 @11:00AM (#10073420)
No. Dalvik was a new implementation and for the android standard library was used a fork of Harmony.
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Re:Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to... by bad_user on Friday August 14, 2015 @01:10AM (#10058731)
No, Dalvik is not a fork of OpenJDK, but a clean room implementation. If it would have been a fork, then Google would be protected by the GPL license.
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