>Oracle overpaid for Sun for a reason, which was something of a mystery. It now appears that collecting royalties on Java used in non-GPL applications might have been the reason.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/08/oracle-sues-google-over-use-of-java-in-android-sdk.ars>
>The reason, in case you've not delved into FOSS licenses, is that any application using a component licensed under the GPL main license must itself be licensed under the main GPL license. Otherwise you pay for a commercial license, in this case to finance Larry Ellison's next boat.
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>.Net looks good by comparison, especially given the availability of Mono.
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Aug-13.html>
>Amazing.
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>Hank
Hank,
I do not see why the animosity against Oracle instead of against Google; if things are as you pointed it, wouldn't it have been the right thing to do by google to comply with the GPL licence, thus releasing their own VM to the community as GPL? They didn't, so they are the ones to blame, wouldn't they?
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