While I haven't closely followed the details of Oracle vs Google, purely
from a layman and business standpoint it seems clear that Google did create
Android / Dalvik exactly to be interoperable with Java. This means one can
run the same Java source code on either platform and the java.* namespace
o
On 7/7/2019 4:23 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote:
> While I haven't closely followed the details of Oracle vs Google,
> purely from a layman and business standpoint it seems clear that
> Google did create Android / Dalvik exactly to be interoperable with
> Java. This means one can run the same Java source c
Hi Pam,
Pam Chestek wrote this on 6/30/2019:
> The [Oracle v. Google] case is about whether it was lawful to copy portions
> of software to enhance the ease of development of software for an entirely
> different software ecosystem.
What is the relevance (or indeed, what is the definition
On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 7:30 AM Pamela Chestek
wrote:
>
> On 7/7/2019 4:23 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote:
>
> While I haven't closely followed the details of Oracle vs Google, purely
> from a layman and business standpoint it seems clear that Google did create
> Android / Dalvik exactly to be interoperabl
On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 10:29 AM Pamela Chestek
wrote:
I believe this is an important distinction that is often missed. No,
> Android is not compatible with Java and was not meant to be.
>
I don't know what that means. It's true that not every Java program can
run on every platform, because plat
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 6:44 PM Lawrence Rosen wrote:
> Thank you again Patrice-Emanuel, and thanks also to the EU for a much
> clearer explanation of functional software interfaces ("APIs") than the
> brief but equally relevant provision in 17 USC 102(b). I hope the US
> Supreme Court is as clea
My opinion has been that gift-style licensing makes you an unpaid, and
unappreciated, employee of big companies. The GPL and AGPL terms are hardly
an unfair expectation of those folks. Having had my software installed in
literally all lines of network-connected consumer devices, I feel that
complia
Bruce Perens via License-discuss dixit:
>My opinion has been that gift-style licensing makes you an unpaid, and
>unappreciated, employee of big companies.
Definitely not. Employees get told what they can work on, how it
should look in the end, and often enough how to work on it.
With Ⓕ Copyfree
Bruce Perens wrote:
> My opinion has been that gift-style licensing makes you an unpaid, and
> unappreciated, employee of big companies Having had my software installed
> in literally all lines of network-connected consumer devices, I feel that
> compliance with those [GPL] terms is a fair
On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 7:41 PM Bruce Perens via License-discuss <
license-discuss@lists.opensource.org> wrote:
> My opinion has been that gift-style licensing makes you an unpaid, and
> unappreciated, employee of big companies.
>
We are talking about two entirely different things. This is not ab
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