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> "In the first trial, a jury found Google had infringed Oracle’s copyright by copying into Android the "structure, sequence and organization" of 37 Java applic
by dlandis 11y ago
> "In the first trial, a jury found Google had infringed Oracle’s copyright by copying into Android the "structure, sequence and organization" of 37 Java application programming interfaces"
I don't think these trials have been about technically using Java as a whole have they? They are about specifically copy/pasting those 37 classes into the Android code base. If I remember correctly, all other part of Android were basically a clean room implementation that did not even allegedly infringe on anything. They just screwed up in those few places.
- pfg 11y agoIIRC the appeals court ruled that the "'structure, sequence and organization' of an API was copyrightable". So even if they hadn't copied a small number of classes¹, they'd still be liable if that decision holds. ¹ Or accidentally implemented them using the exact same code, which is quite possible given how trivial the code in question was - see rangeCheck