[GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

[William Park]

I prefer Oracle to win.  Then, Google would be forced to dump Java and 
find replacement.

On 4/6/21 1:06 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021, 12:31 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, 
> <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     Oracle sued Google, claiming Android infringed Oracle's patents on
>     Java.
>     Somehow.  That failed.
>
>     So they sued for copyright infringement based on the copying of
>     the API
>     declarations.
>
>     The computer community had been very scared that APIs could be
>     copyrighted, something nobody had expected.
>
>     The US Supreme Court decided that this particular case came under
>     "fair
>     use". and was no infringement.  This was NOT a general decision about
>     APIs.
>
>     This is very good news of Free Software.  And consumers.
>
>     https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210405/09243546552/supreme-court-sides-with-google-decade-long-fight-over-api-copyright-googles-copying-java-api-is-fair-use.shtml
>
>
> I read that article with interest after I had used a 
> pharmacological/health sciences metaphore about copyright in another 
> thread. This description of how the courts view a value added 
> proposition, is closer to the crucible of linux topicality, but the 
> principal is the same.
>
> Shame on Oracle for not sharing what they conceptually borrowed 
> elsewhere for their product.
>
> You may use other copy protected work under fair use if it adds value 
> to the proposition. I think this decision makes that pretty clear.
>
>
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