Oracle's position is that their interfaces were Copyright (C) Oracle and to use them you had to abide by the license from Oracle. The whole point of open sourc

Oracle's position is that their interfaces were Copyright (C) Oracle and to use them you had to abide by the license from Oracle. The whole point of open source licenses is to make it explicitly clear what you're allowed to do with the (yes, still copyrighted) material. They too provide strict terms and require you to honor the license.