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If Oracle is arguing it is the API that is copyright able and not the language itself, there may be no issue with SQL. It does add a big question to the C stand
by SoftwareMaven 15y ago
If Oracle is arguing it is the API that is copyright able and not the language itself, there may be no issue with SQL. It does add a big question to the C standard library, though. Can AT&T (or whoever owns the remnants of Bell Labs) start in on everybody?
- angersock 15y agoOh that would be glorious. I'd pay good money to see that hammer fall.
- eli_gottlieb 15y agoThey already tried that against BSD back in the '90s.
- luriel 15y agoIsn't that basically what SCO tried not long ago?
- rst 15y agoSame law firm too, at least in part --- Boies, Schiller & Flexner represented the plaintiffs in both lawsuits.