phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] PHS API copyright?

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Message-ID: <CAOLP8p697-Q0cd3BusJTh6VYQz0cybQXpAY335c_CHEjKggXgQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 20:48:45 -0400
From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] PHS API copyright?

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton
<dennis.hamilton@....org>wrote:

> See
> http://cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/13-1021.Opinion.5-7-2014.1.PDFfor an extensive account given in the ruling itself in the “Background”
> section.
>

Thanks for the link. I read: The jury found that Google infringed Oracle’s
copyrights in the 37 Java packages and a specific computer routine called
“rangeCheck,”

Oracle succeeded in copyrighting their API.  Had this happened in the days
of Unix, God only knows what kind of computing we'd have today.

Bill

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