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When you have Nvidia money you don't need grounds to sue, the lawyers will think of something and drag any open-source devs through years-long suits. The only
by themoonisachees 3y ago
When you have Nvidia money you don't need grounds to sue, the lawyers will think of something and drag any open-source devs through years-long suits.
The only saving grace would be Oracle v Google which established the de jure that an API isn't copyrightable.
- hedora 3y agoAPIs weren't copyrightable before Oracle v Google. There was plenty of precedent saying that. For example, before they were called Oracle, they built a clone of IBM SEQUEL. The main concern with Oracle v Google was that the court would ignore or misinterpret the existing precedent. A secondary concern was that a Google employee formerly worked on Java at Sun (and/or Oracle), and copy-pasted some implementation source code from oracle to google's code bases. There was a real possibility the "APIs aren't copyrightable" precedent would stand, but the courts would rule that Google couldn't continue distributing Dalvik.
- aidenn0 3y agoI thought that Oracle v Google established that APIs are copyrightable, but Google's copying met the terms for fair use?