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uriel on Dec 11, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oracle Asks Apache to Reconsider Java Committee De...

Oracle has patents all over it, and will sue anyone that uses it in any way that they don't like.

jfager on Dec 11, 2010 [–]

OpenJDK comes with a patent grant, so that's not the issue. It's about the GPL and Sun/Oracle's control over the project.

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