Erel B4X founder Staff member Licensed User Longtime User Apr 7, 2021 #1 Google beats Oracle in biggest programming copyright Supreme Court case ever - ZDNET At long last, programming code's application programming interfaces are protected from Oracle's over-reaching claims. www.zdnet.com This was a big threat on Android 10 years ago.
Google beats Oracle in biggest programming copyright Supreme Court case ever - ZDNET At long last, programming code's application programming interfaces are protected from Oracle's over-reaching claims. www.zdnet.com This was a big threat on Android 10 years ago.
Pendrush Well-Known Member Licensed User Longtime User Apr 7, 2021 #2 Erel said: This was a big threat on Android 10 years ago. Click to expand... Not just Android, but every API usage by every programmer in the world.
Erel said: This was a big threat on Android 10 years ago. Click to expand... Not just Android, but every API usage by every programmer in the world.
H Hamied Abou Hulaikah Well-Known Member Licensed User Longtime User Apr 7, 2021 #3 WOW, I was following this case news for a while ... In this case oracle tried to squeeze Google $9B for copying 11k lines of Java API-like code!! But court decided: APIs can't be strictly copyrighted This decision makes programmers more saver worldwide, including our love B4X.
WOW, I was following this case news for a while ... In this case oracle tried to squeeze Google $9B for copying 11k lines of Java API-like code!! But court decided: APIs can't be strictly copyrighted This decision makes programmers more saver worldwide, including our love B4X.
agraham Expert Licensed User Longtime User Apr 7, 2021 #4 HAH said: But court decided: APIs can't be strictly copyrighted Click to expand... Actually they ducked this wider decision (for several pragmatic reasons) and decided on a narrow decision to only settle this case. The decision as I understand it was that even if APIs could be copyrighted then Google's use was fair use under copyright law and was so permissible.
HAH said: But court decided: APIs can't be strictly copyrighted Click to expand... Actually they ducked this wider decision (for several pragmatic reasons) and decided on a narrow decision to only settle this case. The decision as I understand it was that even if APIs could be copyrighted then Google's use was fair use under copyright law and was so permissible.
aeric Expert Licensed User Longtime User Apr 12, 2021 #5 According to Oracle, Google's APIs had violated Oracle Java copyright because they had duplicated Java APIs' "structure, sequence, and organization." Click to expand... Just need to rename or refactoring the functions, insert some random code in between, jumble up the sequence a bit and add in some spaghetti will make the lines not look duplicated.
According to Oracle, Google's APIs had violated Oracle Java copyright because they had duplicated Java APIs' "structure, sequence, and organization." Click to expand... Just need to rename or refactoring the functions, insert some random code in between, jumble up the sequence a bit and add in some spaghetti will make the lines not look duplicated.
agraham Expert Licensed User Longtime User Apr 12, 2021 #6 aeric said: Just need to rename or refactoring the functions, Click to expand... It's not the same API if you do that. The whole point is compatibility between implementations which means same function names, same parameter lists, same return types.
aeric said: Just need to rename or refactoring the functions, Click to expand... It's not the same API if you do that. The whole point is compatibility between implementations which means same function names, same parameter lists, same return types.
