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Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android (ars technica)

Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android (ars technica)

Posted Aug 15, 2010 7:58 UTC (Sun) by lab (subscriber, #51153)
In reply to: Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android (ars technica) by nicooo
Parent article: Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android (ars technica)

I don't think so. Dalvik does not run Java bytecode (.class files), and so is not designed to run the output of a Java compiler. As I understand it now, they are however using a Free/non-Sun Java runtime library implementation (Apache Harmony), which of course clouds the issue a bit. But this library is Free software, and has nothing to do with JME, so....


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