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2014-05-10 00:29 »

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/d ... ower-court

We're still digesting today's lengthy decision in the Oracle v. Google appeal, but we're disappointed-and worried. The heart of the appeal was whether Oracle can claim a copyright on Java APIs and, if so, whether Google infringed that copyright. According to the Federal Circuit today, the answer to both questions was a qualified yes-with the qualification being that Google may have a fair use defense.


The article does provide a link to the ruling:

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/sto ... 2014.1.PDF

I too am going to take some time to digest this and come back with some commentary. Before I do, there is a little something I want to state. I have been surprised that an estoppel issue hasn't been raised by Google. Android is based in part on Apache Harmony. I know for a fact that Sun was fully aware of Harmony and while not allowing Apache the toolkit needed to test for "Java compatibility" did *nothing* to stop its development. In my opinion that would go far beyond a fair use issue.

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2014-05-10 00:39 »

Still, a bit funny seeing one big multinational corporation eating lunch of another big multinational corporation. *lol* :mrgreen:

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