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Oracle v. Google - Google Denied Summary Judgment on Copyright
- orangecat 15y agoUgh. If Oracle wins or forces a settlement establishing that APIs are copyrightable, that would be extremely bad for everyone other than entrenched players. Wine and GNUstep would become illegal, as would any other compatibility library. At least Google won on the issue of whether filenames are copyrightable. That's somewhat encouraging, because it means that if they're allowed to create a file called ArrayList.java, one would think that means they're allowed to have a class named ArrayList as well. Edit: It may be better than that. "This order finds that the names of the various items appearing in the disputed API package specifications are not protected by copyright." If that means class and method names, then it establishes that APIs in fact aren't copyrightable. Presumably the remaining dispute is whether Google actually copied Java code for the Android implementation.