Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by treis on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:49PM
(#16692605)
Panasonic and Ford own copyrights on their CAD drawings for those items. So I can't just CTRL C and CTRL V and send them off to a manufacturer to get my own stuff made. I can, however, measure those things and create my own drawings without violating copyright because I am not reproducing the work.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by chii on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:55PM
(#16693897)
So google could've looked at all existing Java source code, and infer the api? But the resulting output is indistinguishable from just copying.
Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
by UncleMeat on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:48PM
(#16701776)
Reflection means that you can, through automation, observe the complete set of public classes, methods, and fields in the java api without ever looking at docs. You can put together a script to do this in 15 minutes.