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I suspect if Oracle's wins the case ... 1) they will win a lot of money in the near term but it will greatly diminish the popularity of Java/JVM in the long ru
by jakelarkin 10y ago
I suspect if Oracle's wins the case ...
1) they will win a lot of money in the near term but it will greatly diminish the popularity of Java/JVM in the long run because most tech companies shudder at the thought of having Oracle be the slumlord of their core program language.
2) there will be a painful transition of FUD and lawsuits but open source languages/libraries will be ultimately become stronger in industry b/c the licenses can easily be extended to API rights. Restrictively or vaguely licensed code will be looked up on with greater suspicion.
- MichaelGG 10y agoI highly doubt the kinds of companies that buy Oracle really care about Oracle's legal tactics.
- snambi 10y agoThere is no point using java, when Oracle can sue you anytime for any reason. Time to get away from Java, if oracle wins.
- dragandj 10y agoOnly if you violate Java's GPL license. Google took a GPL code and licensed it under a different license - that's why they are sued. So, even if Google looses, that basically strengthens the open source case AND Java, meaning that you can not hijack Java (GPL) and make its offshot non-free (in a copyleft sense).
- icebraining 10y agoGoogle took a GPL code and licensed it under a different license - that's why they are sued. The only code that was alleged to be copied were a few test files (which weren't even distributed) and a 9-line function called "rangeCheck". There was a second copyright claim on the APIs, but Oracle didn't claim the code was copied, just that the reimplementation had the same "structure, sequence and organization" (that is, same names and arguments).
- farcical_tinpot 10y agoIf Oracle wins this piece of brain damage then you will see every legal troll in existence coming out of the woodwork to claim ownership of APIs and how others are using them.