Because ultimately the trademark is as much the "thing" as anything else could be said to be, at least as far as I could think it through.
Everything I can read also makes it seem like the patent grants (above the GPL) are all tied to the condition of generating a compatible implementation of Java.
If Google wants to fork OpenJDK at some point down the road, they'd better have faith in the GPL.
Everything I can read also makes it seem like the patent grants (above the GPL) are all tied to the condition of generating a compatible implementation of Java.
If Google wants to fork OpenJDK at some point down the road, they'd better have faith in the GPL.