Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by djsumdog on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:44PM
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Huh .. so why doesn't Google just release their Android Java runtime under the GPL? Seems like an easy win all the way around?
I thought the OpenJDK people needed certain concessions to release their VM under the GPL?
Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by icebraining on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:51PM
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Supposedly, they are switching to OpenJDK. But that doesn't erase their past infringement.
Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by icebraining on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:50PM
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This is exactly the business model many GPL users follow.
GPL users charge money for a license on the implementation, not on the API. Or do you know any charging a license for the API itself?
OpenJDK is GPL. If you comply with GPL, no. This is the problem, Google copied and did not comply with the GPL. Their other option was to pay Oracle/Sun a licensing fee for a commercial license. This is exactly the business model many GPL users follow. Ruling otherwise makes this business model invalid, but it also creates a double standard.
Consider a programming language where you program in types, like Idris. The case is more obvious here. The API is a program. The same applies to Java too, but that seems less obvious. The API is the program that produces compiler output.