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Начался судебный процесс Оракла против Гугла, по поводу использования Джавы в Андроиде.

Обе стороны подготовили слайды, в которых объясняют свои точки зрения простым и понятным непрофессионалам языком. Или по крайней мере пытаются.

Презентация Оракла: Google Is Liable For Infringement

Презентация Гугла: Google Made Fair Use of the Java language APIs in Android

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[igorlord.livejournal.com]

I also do not see an approval to use without a license here.

What I read is that Sun did not like the way Google was using Java, but it had no intention of getting into a legal fight with Google.

As for the other instances where Sun was publicly overjoyed at Google choosing Java for Android, I do not see it as a joy over Google using Java for Android w/o a license. Instead, I read in it the joy that Google found Java so good that it decided to use it for Android.

[angerona.livejournal.com]

As we've already discussed :), we have a disagreement here about different interpretations. In my mind, it's really hard to distinguish "joy over Google using Java for Android the way they are using it (without a license)" from "joy that Google found Java so good" -- and, since it was Sun that was making those pronouncements, the burden for the lack of clarity should be on them, not on Google.

[igorlord.livejournal.com]

> since it was Sun that was making those pronouncements, the burden for the lack of clarity should be on them, not on Google.

If this were the only statement Sun made, yes.

But given that Sun and Google have been in talks about a license and the history of Sun requiring a license from all other companies who wanted to use implement Java APIs, the burden is on Google to show that Sun's waived its right to require a license.