On 13 August 2010 22:05, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oracle is only suing Google because Google is
redistributing Java
without paying them, and because they're using a modified version (so
technically they're not covered by the patent grants), and because
Google has deep pockets. It's pretty implausible that they'll sue
users and developers directly. If they do, Wikimedia has little
enough money to be extremely low on their list. I don't think we need
to worry about this one way or the other at this point.
I wasn't aware of "if we can probably get away with it" in the WMF
guidelines regarding free software.
But the first half of Aryeh's first sentence ("Oracle is only
suing... not covered by the patent grants") stands alone.
Unless we're afraid that Oracle is going to start going after
anyone who uses Java in any way, we shouldn't have to worry.
(We're not redistributing JDK's, let alone modifying them.)