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US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle

Posted by timothy on from the leave-well-enough-alone dept.

New submitter Areyoukiddingme writes: The Solicitor General of the Justice Department has filed a response to the US Supreme Court's solicitation of advice regarding the Google vs. Oracle ruling and subsequent overturning by the Federal Circuit. The response recommends that the Federal Circuit ruling stand, allowing Oracle to retain copyright to the Java API.

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  1. Re:Clean room implementation? by jandrese · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If the laws we have now were in place back then the computer revolution wouldn't have happened. We would still be paying $5000 for IBM Mainframe access terminals.

    Or in a slightly less Dystopian view, computers today would look like iPhones, with one vendor having a stranglehold on the platform and completely anemic third party hardware support outside of cosmetics.

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  2. Re:Clean room implementation? by Immerman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I believe it's not that you can't use the API, but that you can't interface non-GPL code with the kernel due to the restrictions of the GPL. That you would use the API to do so is incidental to that restriction.

    If instead you want to build your own kernel implementing the same API, I don't believe they have any objection.

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