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To add on to what chc said: We should all remember, as technical people, that these laws are meant to be interpreted by humans, not machines. Even databases of
by nightpool 12y ago
To add on to what chc said: We should all remember, as technical people, that these laws are meant to be interpreted by humans, not machines. Even databases of information aren't copyrightable, much less the function names that a programer uses.
- hahainternet 12y agoYou clearly missed the fact that Oracle won at appeal and indeed the function names a programmer uses are protected by copyright. I made a getYear function a long time ago, stop stealing my goddamn copyrighted code!
- nightpool 12y agoYou clearly missed that fact that no judge, anywhere, would hold up names as why something was copyrightable. Instead, as my sibling comments say, what was found copyrightable was the "structure, sequence and organization" of their API. The court said that Google copied the whole package structure of Java, including a whole tree of names.