Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by AgentME on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:37PM
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Isn't Java open source? (Does this not include the APIs that are part of it?)
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by fapjacks on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:31PM
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When it comes to Oracle, it doesn't matter. There's a reason MySQL was forked into MariaDB basically the second Oracle bought it.
Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by alok-g on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:56PM
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Open-source does not mean there are no restrictions. AFAIK, Java's open-source license did include some provisions that Google violated.
PS: I am not a lawyer. Above piece of knowledge is coming just from what I read, perhaps on HN during the previous ruling on the case.
Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by ben509 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:49PM
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OpenJDK is presently under GPL 2, with the "classpath exception" at the end: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/file/a08cbfc0e4ec/LICEN...
At the time, though, I don't believe it was open source and OpenJDK originated as a cleanroom rewrite of it, and has since been integrated.