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by voidr 5018 days ago
The difference is that you are free to use the Android CTS, unlike the Java TCK, which had a Field Of Use restriction that did not allow using it for mobile.

The big difference is that you can do whatever you want with Android and it's components, but don't expect any help, from the OHA if you are making something incompatible.
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josephlord 5018 days ago
Does that really help? Sun offered a different platform for mobile which Android is a massive deviation from. J2ME was rubbish but does that change their rights.

Is the defence of this action that Google aren't quite as unreasonable as Oracle? Is that the standard we hold "don't be evil" to?

The legal tool being used is different but it definitely seems anti-competitive.

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magicalist 5018 days ago
It means you aren't beholden at all to Google to be an "Android compatible" device, you just need to pass the freely available compatibility test.

Ask the Apache Harmony guys if that's only slightly less unreasonable than Sun/Oracle.

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