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>I don't see how they can claim that their own Java APIs can be copyrighted, and then defending their copying of Amazon's API on the grounds that an SDK using i
by treis 7y ago
>I don't see how they can claim that their own Java APIs can be copyrighted, and then defending their copying of Amazon's API on the grounds that an SDK using it is open source. I would think they could just look at the documentation, and skip the SDK altogether. :)
They took an open source piece of software (the SDK) and made a derivative work (the backend the SDK uses). That indeed is copying and is essentially identical to what Google did. But there's no copyright violation here because Amazon explicitly granted everyone the right to do that by releasing the SDK under the Apache license.
- TheGoddessInari 7y agoOpenJDK is GPLv2 with linking exception. I fail to see how it substantively differs.
- dtech 7y agoOnly thing I can think of is that APL2 is much more liberal than GPL
- danarmak 7y agoDalvik is APL licensed, so it can't be benefitting from a GPL license grant in any way. The GPL only lets you distribute derivative copies that are also under the GPL.
- Oletros 7y agoDalvik didn't infringed java copyright, Dalvik case was involved with patents
- gpm 7y agoOracle did not comply with the SDKs license, nor did Google comply with openjdk's license. Google acknowledge's this and isn't bothering to try and argue otherwise. They aren't presenting openjdk's license as a defense to infringement. Oracle for whatever reason is ignoring that issue in their statement to ars technica.
- treis 7y agoArs technica said that Oracle doesn't comply but three minutes of research show that their cloud SDK includes the Apache license: https://github.com/oracle/oci-ruby-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/oracle/oci-ruby-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE.t...
- gpm 7y agoPlenty of other derivative works (under Oracle's theory of copyright) don't contain the apache 2 license, for example the site with the documentation https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/api/ https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/api/
- treis 7y agoA website serving documentation is not distributing the work covered by the license so does not need the license. If you click through to where you can actually download software the license is included there.
- gpm 7y agoIt contains the sequence structure and organization of the original API, so it does according to oracle's theory...