Thread: JAVA on the N900 is possible!
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CormacB is offline CormacB
2010-10-12 , 14:16
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#275
Originally Posted by RobbieThe1st View Post
Really?
It seems to me IcedTea6, and modern builds of OpenJDK are under GPL, in which case it should be perfectly legal to distribute it on any platform needed.
The problem is patents, which are covered in GPL 3 but not GPL 2 which OpenJDK uses. That is the basis for the whole Oracle/Google lawsuit.