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Wait, for someone who hasn't been following this ordeal very closely, can you elaborate on the significance of the 'infamous lines'? Because this just seems li
by dmoy 15y ago
Wait, for someone who hasn't been following this ordeal very closely, can you elaborate on the significance of the 'infamous lines'? Because this just seems like some crap you'd have to do as a freshman on the first day of learning C. Java. Whatever.
- greyfade 15y agoThis is code that Oracle has claimed that Google illegally "copied" from OpenJDK without proper license. Whether you could write this code yourself is irrelevant - this is Copyright, not Patent law. What matters is whether it was copied, and whether that copy falls under the Fair Use doctrine.