Oracle raises questions on open-source license for Android with OpenJDK

Oracle has raised questions whether a version of Google's Android operating system running OpenJDK code will get an open-source license.

Google told a court in California that on Dec. 24 it released new versions of its Android platform that are licensed for use under a free, open source license provided by Oracle as part of its OpenJDK project, a redesign that apparently aims to get around charges that the previous versions of Android infringed Oracle's copyrights on Java.

OpenJDK is the open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition.

Oracle contests that the December release of files by Google does not tally with the search giant's regular procedure for new releases. "Quietly posting a working copy of code is not how Google announces new versions of Android," it said in a filing. The code for the new versions were made available on the Android Open Source Project repository.

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