U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Oracle API Case

Re:U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Orac... by pcwalton on Monday June 29, 2015 @07:58PM (#9801990)

Thanks, that's helpful.

(java.lang.Math is awfully similar to math.h; I actually wonder if, historically, there was copying.)

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Denies Google's Request to Appeal Orac... by jacobolus on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:42PM (#9802354)

Historically, almost everything in computing is a copy of a copy of a copy, usually ultimately leading to some pseudocode in an academic journal somewhere. If everyone along the line asserted their copyright, the whole field would collapse.

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