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And if Oracle wins on interfaces being copyrightable, then software industry will probably go down the toilet, mired in a disaster of copyright disputes. Now y
by kevin_b_er 6y ago
And if Oracle wins on interfaces being copyrightable, then software industry will probably go down the toilet, mired in a disaster of copyright disputes.
Now you need a license to interact with something?
Do all PCs need a license from IBM now for having IBM-PC-compatible features?
Is Wine possible? Is a VM possible?
Does the SCO lawsuit return now that Linux implementing unix APIs?
GPL software goes out the window as well, as you now cannot interface with GPL software without implementing the copyrighted interfaces.
- panny 6y ago>And if Oracle wins on interfaces being copyrightable They already did. Fair use is an argument made #after# copyright infringement occurs. Winning on fair use means API is copyrightable. The jury decided that it is fair use to take someone else's code and change the license on it. The Federal Circuit overturned the jury as a matter of law. The law doesn't say you can do that as part of fair use. The power to make law belongs to the legislature, not the judicial.
- 3633735324 6y agoJuries don't write laws they interpret them. It's almost like it was a bad license that only lasted so long because it was never sufficiently tested.