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Re:Google (Potentially) Blows the Door Off Oracle's Copyrigh... by seldo on Thursday April 26, 2012 @03:28PM (#3895697)
I was unaware that the APIs were contributed by others. Do you have any idea who might be some of the (theoretical) copyright holders of the individual APIs?
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Re:Google (Potentially) Blows the Door Off Oracle's Copyrigh... by foamdino on Thursday April 26, 2012 @07:08PM (#3896582)
There is significant code in the Java libraries that was first written by people outside of Sun/Oracle.

Back in the Java5 days some APIs provided by Java were simply javax.something wrapped around org.apache code.

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