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jtome | 10 years ago

Starting with oracle hopefully. (Un)fortunately (and IANAL) I don't think copyrights are enforceable if you don't enforce them everytime you know of a violation.

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rms_returns|10 years ago

That won't happen because IBM also uses a lot of Java stuff including the great eclipse infrastructure. They will end up suing each other for a lot of components if that happens. If rumors are to be believed, Oracle and IBM have some sort of "agreement" that they won't sue each other on these matters.

bcg1|10 years ago

I would venture a guess that IBM is a paid up licensee of Java, they've been releasing their own proprietary JVM for quite a while and never been sued by Sun/Oracle for it AFAIK

lftl|10 years ago

Nope, that's trademarks.

michel-slm|10 years ago

That applies to trademarks, not copyrights IIRC.