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Re:White House Sides with Oracle, Tells Supreme Court APIs A... by pornel on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @06:28PM (#9614851)
I'm not sure. His main argument in this case was that distribution of a non-GPL program with intention of letting user link with a GPL library was a "subterfuge".

Google's case is different. They didn't write Android so users can choose between a dummy libDoesNotRunAnything or wink, wink unlicensed Oracle JVM.

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