Friday, June 01, 2012
Make your own inside to an API, and it appears you are good to go
Google won a lawsuit. Oracle said that Google violated Java copyrights (1).
Google wrote their own code that followed Java specifications. The court said that is okay. That means to me that as long as you write your own code, it is okay to use anybody else's specifications.
Interesting... Especially when one of the ways that used to be used to determine whether somebody has violated someone else's patent was by reverse engineering the code to specifications and seeing if the specifications are different. Perhaps if Oracle patented the specification and went that route, the result would have been different.
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) http://tinyurl.com/7862aqj
Google wrote their own code that followed Java specifications. The court said that is okay. That means to me that as long as you write your own code, it is okay to use anybody else's specifications.
Interesting... Especially when one of the ways that used to be used to determine whether somebody has violated someone else's patent was by reverse engineering the code to specifications and seeing if the specifications are different. Perhaps if Oracle patented the specification and went that route, the result would have been different.
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) http://tinyurl.com/7862aqj
