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microg replicates the API but contains no actual google code, right? Isn't that exactly what google argued was completely legal when they were sued by oracle ov
by SahAssar 5y ago
microg replicates the API but contains no actual google code, right? Isn't that exactly what google argued was completely legal when they were sued by oracle over replicating the java API?
- user_7832 5y agoYes MicroG is open source, but they probably had to reverse engineer something. However I don't know if that's the main reason, my initial comment was likely (partially?) wrong, here's an update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31171788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31171788
- SahAssar 5y agoI responded to the other comment too, but: > Yes MicroG is open source, but they probably had to reverse engineer something. MicroG being open source is irrelevant. The relevant point is that google play services is not, so MicroG devs could not have copied source from it. Besides the fact that the API used by other programs to interact with play services is public and that the team had no access to the play services source code US law also has a specific carve out for "interoperability" which might (I'm guessing) apply here. Google has already spent many years and many millions in court arguing that an API is not copyrightable. IANAL but it seems hard to argue that this would be an easy legal case.