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I don't understand this lawsuit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17985085

If Google takes something that is free (Java) and uses it to produce something else (Android) that is also free where is the breach of copyright?

I thought if something is open source you can take it and produce something else and even charge for it provided you credit the original owners. Sun Java is probably not open source but don't the same rules apply?
 
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Java is open source, and therefore free to use.

The API's Oracle own are not, and it's Googles use of these which Oracle is complaining about.
 
No idea which ones in particular, but it's come out that Google copied 9 lines of code in a RangeCheck() method (out of 900 or so I think are in that file) and out of the millions of lines in Androids entirety.
 
Did oracle ever have concrete plans to use java to make a mobile os anyway? The whole purpose of java is to run on anything so I don't see why they are getting arsey.

If google had nicked it they should know better and remember to change variable names and disguise their theft better. Any first year comp sci student knows that much!
 
Lawsuits are big business these days you know....
 
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