Jeff Gould

July 1, 2009

Oracle, do the right thing, set Java free

To nearly everyone’s surprise, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has thrown a last-minute banana peel in front of Larry Ellison’s bid to buy Sun and Java.
Oracle is about to acquire Sun’s monumental collection of Java intellectual property rights. This includes the patents and copyrights to the code embodied in the Java platform editions (EE, SE and ME) and in dozens of critical Java standards (JSRs) associated with the platforms, as well as the all-important test suites (JCKs and TCKs) that determine what software can claim compatibility with these standards and thus receive these IP rights.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Java community to wrest some concessions from the new owner of Java before the deal is set in stone.

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Using a hypervisor to reconcile GPL and proprietary embedded code

DateAugust 29, 2007

By Bruno Zoppis (LinuxDevices.com)
Open source software is of increasing use in embedded systems. The use of GPL software in consumer products may create issues for device manufacturers who need to protect proprietary code or to guarantee their systems' behavior. In this article, we study the impact of the use of both GPL v2 and v3 in consumer products, and how using secure virtualization along with hypervisor technology can help device manufacturers comply with these GPL licenses while protecting business-critical IP (intellectual property) and system behavior.

http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3899346728.html

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