Google Chrome and Android: Legal Aspects of Open Source Software
Malcolm Bain · Information technology and law series/Information technology & law series · 2012
Google makes ample use of free and open source software, both in the infrastructure for its online service platform (search engine and other Google offerings), and free software projects that Google has published and promotes, such as Android and Google Chromium. In this chapter, we comment on FOSS licensing, its role in the Information Society and Google’s use of FOSS for strategic purposes, as well as the recent “Oracle America Inc. v. Google Inc.” complaint, lodged in summer 2010, which involves both Android and Java, two free and open source software programs.