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GPL is not Apache License

Authored by: bugstomper on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 02:58 AM EDT

If the entire JDK is released under GPL, then there is no question that the APIs
are free at least under GPL.

Oracle would argue that the APIs are copyrightable and therefore are available
under GPL as part of OpenJDK.

Google would argue that they are not protected by copyright, therefore the APIs
can be used in ways that would violate the terms of the GPL.

Either way the announcement that all of the JDK is released as OpenJDK under the
GPL would not affect arguments about Google's use of the APIs. Oracle would
still say that the APIs are not available for Google to use without following
the terms of the GPL, and Google would still say that the APIs are available for
anyone to use.

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OpenJDK (now) is not OpenJDK (then)

Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 10:49 AM EDT

Red Hat launched project IcedTea in mid-2007 to make a fully buildable open source (GPL) version of the OpenJDK Java implementation that Sun had released earlier that year.

The problem was Sun's release had third-party dependencies that could not legally be put under GPL at that time, which continues to be the case today for Oracle's binary distributions of Java SE7.

Currently Oracle has adopted IcedTea7 as OpenJDK7 and deemed it to be the "reference implementation" of Java SE7.

There is a guide to building OpenJDK7 from scratch. Information on where to get source and required dependencies are detailed for various platforms.

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Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense. -- John McCarthy (1927-2011)

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