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Please stop spreading this misinformation
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 08:34 PM EDT
I Agree they couldn't have used OpenJDK as it came too late. However they may
not need to apply the TCK to an OpenJDK fork as you do get basic patent
protection from the GPL2 license. The TCK is different for OpenJDK and is now
quite open with no field of use restrictions. However it gives you some more
explicit patent protection but no trademark or naming writes.

Also I don't see how Android could ever use the TCK as to get it you have to not
change or superset or subset the api. So you can ONLY use it to port JAVA SE to
a new platform. You can't do a complete platform like android with it.

For Google to use the OpenJDK GPL2 licence now to get java API covered now it
would be a big problem as current OSS license does not work with GPL so they
would have to get ALL contributors to android to agree to re-license under GPL
and add extra GPL compliance to phone developers.

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Please stop spreading this misinformation
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 04:33 AM EDT
"If they used the TCK in order to get a license for Sun's patents then they
would be in violation of the GPL. If they skipped the TCK then they would have
been violating Sun's patents."

Just read that again.

It raises a question of who can actually use OpenJDK, as Google are hardly
unique in their position.

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