Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight
by wyldfire on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:03PM
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Those are too abstract as described. Could you copyright an implementation of those? Yes. And if someone did you shouldn't infringe on theirs you should write your own. But that's not new, you can find tons of different basic data structure implementations out there, with a variety of licenses.
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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight
by gpm on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:04PM
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Eh, that's nitpicking. "class Stack<T> { void push(t: T); T pop(void); }" is not too abstract, and has been written down many times.
Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight
by wyldfire on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:09PM
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Yes and no, I guess if that's what they meant then yes I was nitpicking but I took it literally (lots of folks confuse concepts between patents, copyrights and trademarks. Less common on HN but still happens. )