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Re:Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android by alanh on Thursday August 12, 2010 @09:23PM (#1599726)
Sadly they are not.

This is why the W3C has a patent policy [1] to prevent contributed software and specifications from being covered by patents.

[1]: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/

If this still does not make any sense, realize that patents and copyrights, while both forms of IP, are completely different, legally. Also recall how open source GIF implementations were still covered by the Unisys patent.

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Re:Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android by hga on Thursday August 12, 2010 @10:07PM (#1599820)
Which is the sort of thing that did the other JEDEC members a fat lot of good when Rambus (spit) went on the warpath: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambus#Lawsuits
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