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Google Didn't Ship Relicensed Java Code After All

Posted by Soulskill on from the deeper-looks dept.

RedK writes "In a follow up to yesterday's news about Google apparently relicensing confidential Oracle code found in Java under the ASL, it seems that the blogger who initially reported the issue was plain wrong, as the files he indicated were in breach of Oracle's copyright do not actually ship with Android. Google has also deleted many of these files, which were mostly used as unit tests."

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  1. Re:Go Google go by javacowboy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I hope Google gets its way on court, scales up the Dalvik VM and we stop using anything coming from Oracle. Tomcat would run happily on it and we would use a completely Free/Free/No patents virtual machine. Kind of like they are doing with WebM. That would result in companies becoming really careful when trying to take open source code and screw up with it.

    Google fragmented the Java platform because they were too cheap to pay Sun. That's the bottom line. There are now two incompatible Java specs instead of one (I'm not talking about competing implementations of the same spec like IBM JDK, etc). What Google did is terrible for Java because it's no longer write once run anywhere.

    And if you don't think Google violated Oracle's VM patents, then you're deluding yourself.

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  2. Re:I was *not* plain wrong -- unlike some 'rebutta by tomhudson · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    The worst part is that the files in question were totally useless - they were part of a unit test that simply doesn't apply to Android.

    Flagrant Muttonhead was just trolling, like he's been doing for years. This is someone whose anti-open-source agenda is coming apart, and he's getting desperate to try to re-establish any credibility.