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Re: GOOG's Android gambit


From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Subject: Re: GOOG's Android gambit
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:28:17 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11)

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:52:22AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > It is worth _nothing_ that Sun has never made available a public list of
> > the IP they own and that you need to license in order to legally be able
> > to run Java...
> 
> For once he's got something right (emphasis added).

Not really, Java is becoming[1] fully GPL, which means a patent license.


Best,
Rui

[1] they're actually needing help from the community to replace a few
components.

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