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| Authored by: bugstomper on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 06:08 PM EDT |
| Mark wrote an article a couple of days ago:
What's the
Deal With the Java Specification License?
The thing is, nothing in the
specification license says that Oracle has the right to tell you that you can't
write your own library to the same specifications. They claim that in their
slide, and following the terms of the license would certainly allow you to do so
as well as allow you to make some use of the trademarks and not be sued over
patents, but this case is over an argument whether you need to take a license to
write your own API-compatible library.
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| Authored by: mschmitz on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 07:25 PM EDT |
But Google are not calling their implementation Java, now are they? It's Dalvik
which just happens to behave quite a lot like a Java VM, and the necessary
Harmony class libraries. Everyone knows that for all intents and purposes, this
is as close to Java as you can get without calling it Java. Walks like Java,
quacks like Java, just doesn't have any title to the _name_ Java.
Did Google say anywhere they provide Java class libraries?
-- mschmitz
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