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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 12:40 PM EDT |
The Open Group sue Oracle over UNIX/POSIX copyrights. n/t [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 12:53 PM EDT |
Android doesn't use the GPL licence, so the GPL declaration doesn't apply.
The GPLv2 even includes interfaces in its language.
The wrong decision
here could definitely be reason to panic, but it won't be a GPLv2 problem. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 12:57 PM EDT |
Oracle may "fork itself" with recent MySQL
moves
"Oracle's recent release of three new commercial
extensions to the MySQL database has caused an outcry among some in the MySQL
community. Some, including project founder Michael "Monty" Widenius, are
concerned that Oracle, by moving to an "open core" model, will slowly move more
and more of the database project to commercially licensed codeāand to licensing
terms that make it difficult for users to escape".
Ok - got the
whole picture now?
Question - This Google case, in the worst case, if Google
were to lose... could a loss then be a building block for Oracle to be able to
make a lot of IP that was open sourced, to be then controled strictly by
Oracle?
So, who is evil?
Of course, Oracle is not, as they could be
sued by stockholders IF they didn't follow this path. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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