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Re:Judge Alsup asks Oracle/Google to brief API issue in ligh... by randomfool on Thursday May 03, 2012 @10:50PM (#3926790)
If SSO is copyrightable, am I infringing on their copyright when I implement an interface?
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Re:Judge Alsup asks Oracle/Google to brief API issue in ligh... by randomfool on Friday May 04, 2012 @04:45AM (#3927588)
Specifically, my understanding is that Oracle is saying that the Structure, Sequence and Organization (SSO) of method names, parameters and return values is copyrightable.

Looking at the documentation for the List interface (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/List.html), it states '© 1993, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.'.

So, if I implement that interface based on the documentation then I'm basing my code on Oracle's copyrighted API and I'm explicitly cloning Oracle's SSO. So I've committed copyright infringement?

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