Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software
by carussell on Sunday June 14, 2015 @07:22PM
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> FSF and others were safe because they used a GPL-derived IcedTea codebase (earlier Sun code). That license protected from patent abuse
There very definitely isn't any patent indemnification provided by the GPLv2—which is the (only) version in effect for OpenJDK. That fact is a big reason why GPLv3 exists.
> Apache and Google didn't take that path and it came back to haunt them
In what way? This question was the entire point of my last comment, but it remains unanswered.
There very definitely isn't any patent indemnification provided by the GPLv2—which is the (only) version in effect for OpenJDK. That fact is a big reason why GPLv3 exists.
> Apache and Google didn't take that path and it came back to haunt them
In what way? This question was the entire point of my last comment, but it remains unanswered.