Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight

Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by danShumway on Friday November 15, 2019 @07:38PM (#21550089)

I don't get this perspective. The Open Source movement relies on adversarial operability far more than for-profit entities do.

Would WINE be legal if Oracle won? Would Oracle's OpenOffice be able to read and save Microsoft document formats? Replicating APIs has always been a huge part of the Open Source movement.

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by gpm on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:19PM (#21550767)

The Wine case is particularly amusing, because WSL (v1) would be equally infringing in the exact opposite direction.

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by Spivak on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:41PM (#21550854)

Assuming that the court rules in the way I would want then 100% yes.

WINE would be fair use because it’s purpose is to allow programs written for Windows to run on Linux.

Google’s use of the Java API would be infringement because Google’s use of the API is to provide a familiar environment for Java developers and it was easier to borrow the Java API than design a new one.

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by wtallis on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:03PM (#21550933)

By that logic, would WINE be fair use while winelib is infringement?

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