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| Authored by: maroberts on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 04:00 AM EDT |
There may be a conflict between the GPL and the Android license, which is Apache
and allows you to not publish the code which relies on this file, unlike the
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 05:29 AM EDT |
And to make matters worse, the reason that file is in OpenJDK is because Google
contributed it in the first place!
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2009-June/001937.html
So, really, first there is Oracle going "whohoo! cool! thanks, we take that
and integrate it" and then it suddenly is "ehe, wait, you ehm, kind of
copied those lines, bad! bad! bad!"...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 07:29 AM EDT |
And so long as you choose your words carefully you make make 9 lines sound like
"The Whole of Android".
You must remember to wave a lot and distract your audience with tales of how
hurt you are when you do though.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 12:53 PM EDT |
Public domain allows anyone to do anything with it.
Non public domain
falls under Copyright Law that governs such things as attribution, copying,
first sale exhaustion, licensing, and such.
If I author some code and
license it under the GPL, Copyright Law would not allow you to take that code
and drop the BSD license on it instead. I did not authorize you to license my
code under different terms after all.
The GPL requires that a person
redistributing the work with changes must provide the source code (or an
appropriate offer). The BSD license does not allow that.
The Apache
license is a lot closer to being like the BSD license then it is to being like
the GPL.
As P.J. said long ago:
If Google had just used the GPL
released code... they could have avoided all this mess!
Except maybe the
patents of course... we're used to BSF bringing what appears to be baseless
cases.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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