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You 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 l
by hahainternet 12y ago
You 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.