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This has been asked for a long time [1].

One view is that they wouldn't pass it, because, in their (lawyers') own words:

Although software applications for the Android platform may be written in the Java programming language, the Dalvik bytecode is distinct and different from Java bytecode. The Dalvik VM is not a Java VM. [2]

At various points in time, certain key Google employees contemplated whether they should or shouldn't [3].

[1] http://groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101028111354436 [2] http://groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101005114201136 [3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/googler-who-said...




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