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thames

Re: Google had copied

@Richard Plinston - "In any case I am not sure why Google is not using as a defence:

Sun released the complete source code of the Java Class Library under the GPL on May 8, 2007, ..."

The problem is that Google didn't use the GPL version of the class libraries. They re-implemented their own because they wanted Apache or BSD licensed software. A license for software written by Sun doesn't apply to software written by Google. Google's long standing aversion to the GPL may have just bitten them on the arse.

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