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Yeah, the GPL was anticipated by Sun: "Sun Develops A Licensing Regime To Foster A Community And Ensure Compatibility Although Oracle owns the copyright on Java SE and the corresponding packages, Oracle encourages their use by others%u2014both a v…

in Google moves toward Chrome as Oracle threatens to establish Android's Java infringement Comment by thufir December 2013
Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 What Google don't like about the GPL is that it would make all of Android truly open, thus exposing their hypocritical, marketing lies. It would loosen their iron grip over the Open Handset Alliance, they …

in Google moves toward Chrome as Oracle threatens to establish Android's Java infringement Comment by thufir December 2013
What they could do, what they should've done, is to just fork OpenJDK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openjdk In fact, Oracle, quite literally, suggested this: "Sun Develops A Licensing Regime To Foster A Community AndEnsure Compatibility Altho…

in Google moves toward Chrome as Oracle threatens to establish Android's Java infringement Comment by thufir December 2013