Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME  —  Sun released their “free java” source code under the GPLv2 to both win the free software crowd and capture peripheral innovation and bug fixing from the community.  For the java standard edition (aka …

Source:   Stefano’s Linotype

Author:   Stefano Mazzocchi

Link:   http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/