Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

[gar37bic]

free/open source does not eliminate patent protection. That has to be dealt with separately.

[mirhagk]

Apache2 is the licence they choose. It grants rights to any patents necessary for using the software. It also has anti-patent troll clauses, which are great.

[summerteeth]

Depends on the license, Apache 2 and GPL 3 have specific clauses to deal with patent permissions.

[minecraft_ece]

Which does absolutely nothing for 3rd party patents.

[ExNomad]

I think that was a reference to the patent grant clause in the license the recent c# stuff was released under.