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GPLv2's implicit patent license and Dalvik

GPLv2's implicit patent license and Dalvik

Posted Jun 6, 2011 22:39 UTC (Mon) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048)
In reply to: GPLv2's implicit patent license and Dalvik by dodji
Parent article: Android, forking, and control

Since there are major architectural differences, I assume that Google made an engineering and not only licensing choice.


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GPLv2's implicit patent license and Dalvik

Posted Jun 7, 2011 2:54 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

There are good reasons to believe that it was fundamentally a licensing choice as Google and Sun/Oracle were prepared to sign a agreement as per

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20110511030...

If it was primarily a technical decision, it would have been possible to make tweaks to OpenJDK without having to rewrite it from scratch c.f. IcedTea.

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