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Re:Google: Oracle Java win will kill software development, s... by fancyfish on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @12:49PM (#19028290)
Can anyone elaborate how this could impact tools such as GNU Octave? It would fall under this classification, right?
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Re:Google: Oracle Java win will kill software development, s... by codinger on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @01:21PM (#19028614)
I would like to know if it impacts mathematics and scientific libraries for python that I use in lieu of MatLab.
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Re:Google: Oracle Java win will kill software development, s... by fixermark on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @01:14PM (#19028526)
if Octave shares a bunch of function signatures with MATLAB, yes, it would be at risk for a copyright claim.
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Re:Google: Oracle Java win will kill software development, s... by DoctorOetker on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @03:38PM (#19029593)
what about instruction "signatures"? i.e. the machine instruction sets? every compiler is potentially performing millions of counts of copyright and or license violations on a large scale?
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