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| Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 06:04 AM EDT |
The Oracle argument is more insidious than you ever thought possible.
OpenJDK is released under GPL. Systems created using OpenJDK cannot be called
Java unless the TCK and permission to use it is obtained from Oracle.
No problem, we will use 37 of the API packages and not call our work, 'Java'.
Oracle say that the creative and expressive goodness is fixated in the Java API
Specification. Anything you derive from OpenJDK or Harmony that copies that
creative expression, especially the SSO, is infringing on our copyright.
If you run the Harmony source code through javadoc to obtain the SSO and
definitions of the API, you are infringing. Same with the OpenJDK.
If you just use the GPLed code in your own work and follow the GPL rules for
that then you are infringing on Oracle's copyright.
According to Oracle, you cannot do anything that uses any part of the Java
system without infringing their copyright and patents.
The only thing you are licensed to do is write programs and compile and run them
on Oracle Java. Well, with some exceptions like card devices and mobile phones,
and tablets and... anything else transportable that Oracle think they can
monetise.
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Regards
Ian Al
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