Google vs. Oracle

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Hamied Abou Hulaikah

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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

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HAH said:
But court decided: APIs can't be strictly copyrighted
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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

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According to Oracle, Google's APIs had violated Oracle Java copyright because they had duplicated Java APIs' "structure, sequence, and organization."
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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.
 
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