Clarification on a few points

Posted Feb 1, 2012 21:52 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Clarification on a few points by Duncan
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Just to add to this - READ GROKLAW.

Firstly, Oracle launched this as a patent suit. Unfortunately for them, the patents have been comprehensively gutted.

Secondly, they threw in the copyright stuff as a side dish. Unfortunately, it seems to be all they've got left. And it's pretty irrelevant, because Google (a) never used the code in question, and (b) only distributed it by accident. It's a few lines of code (measured in hundreds of LOC if that), and it's part of the test suite that should NEVER get onto any shipping device.

Cheers,
Wol