Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by icebraining on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:16PM
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That's not all it said. The license had field-of-use restrictions, meaning you couldn't use your implementation for every purpose. The Apache Foundation published an open letter to Sun on that regard.
And specifically, use of a J2SE implementation in mobile devices may have been forbidden.
The original license for Java said you can create your own implementation just fine, so long as it was compatible with the others (or at least the benchmark one). By not doing that, Google violated the license.
"It's a bit odd to claim that somebody stole your API while at the same time complaining that they did not steal it well enough."
Not if what you want to avoid is people Embracing your API, Extending it with new special bits, and Extinguishing your version.