That is very interesting. The fine article was VERY unclear about whether this was a patent or copyright issue. If google Java is a derived work, with no GPL source, then they are in the wrong. If they did a clean room implementation, then the issue is murkier. I have to ask, WHY would they do a clean room implementation on an open source product?
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That is very interesting. The fine article was VERY unclear about whether this was a patent or copyright issue. If google Java is a derived work, with no GPL source, then they are in the wrong. If they did a clean room implementation, then the issue is murkier. I have to ask, WHY would they do a clean room implementation on an open source product?
While the article did talk confusingly about copyrights as well, the thrust was clearly against patents, not copyrights. They are not the same.