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Happily, from Oracle's perspective, their legal win in their case against Google will not doubt quickly be leveraged to kill off the MySQL forks for copying MyS
by rodgerd 13y ago
Happily, from Oracle's perspective, their legal win in their case against Google will not doubt quickly be leveraged to kill off the MySQL forks for copying MySQL's copyrighted APIs.
- comex 13y agoNo. The APIs are covered by the GPL just as the implementation.
- lambda 13y agoLikewise for Java.
- deciplex 13y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but I think if Dalvik were released under a license compatible with the Oracle runtimes, this whole thing between Oracle and Google goes away? I agree allowing copyrighting of APIs is a bit daft, but the point is that if you're trying to draw a parallel between MySQL/MariaDB and Java/Dalvik, it doesn't apply. (Assuming the MariaDB fork has a compatible license, which I believe it does.)