Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement?

Re:Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringem... by gregorygoc on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:32AM (#21968079)

Can I patent open/read/write/close methods? I might have an idea for the greatest troll in modern era.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringem... by Spivak on Monday January 06, 2020 @04:19PM (#21973444)

No, because a patent would only cover your novel implementation of those functions.

You can't copyright them either in the same way that Harry Potter is copyrighted but not the word 'the' which is used throughout.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringem... by jess-sch on Monday January 06, 2020 @02:43PM (#21972426)

At least for close(), I'm very much in favor. Maybe that would push more languages to implement automatic destructors.

(More realistically though, it'd unfortunately mostly result in mass renaming to .destroy())

[ Parent | on HN ]