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Authored by: BitOBear on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 12:14 AM EDT |
On the other hand, if you took the entire class library and decompiled it and
extracted the declarations and set aside the definitions, how could you get any
-other- layout?
of "void sort(Object o);" only the very last "o" could end
up with another name. The organization and structure and names of all the other
elements is a fact of the library not a choice of the author. That the
"Object" is called "o" is just lazy or obvious.
Since Andorid doesn't contain, and Google never created or released, a java
compiler, it is -invariant- that the compiler that is used, as supplied by Sun
ne. Oracle will only produce code that is conformance to the Sun ne. Oracle
API.
This whole thing is like asking why a vendor B accepts pressed machine parts
"just because" they use a machine press made by vendor A to make the
parts.
The programmer writes java code and compiles it with a java compiler into java
classes. The programmer then hands that over to "adb" which recompiles
(translates) the class files into dalvic files. Those dalvic files are then
installed in the phone.
On what planet does a -translator- have the job of producing output that is
unrelated to the input? Forget computers for a second, if you hired a translator
and that guy heard comments about nuclear power and then told you about poetry,
you would have his head once you found out. Sure. But in the meantime none of
your conversations would make sense.
So why would -anyone- even -imagine- that the class-to-dalvic translator would
essentially un-compile and rewrite methods so that the underlying classes and
compostions could be different. What good would "void rearrange(Thingy f,
unrelated stuff);" be as the result of receiving "void sort(Object
o);"
The entire position that the API is freely frangible and that Google -should-
have shattered it and put it back together arbitrarily, to keep from bothering
Sun (who actively supported Google at the time) is just inhumanly ridiculous.
This isn't just not copyright infringement, it isn't even -plagiarism- since Sun
and Java was cited in the resultant work.
Forget computers for a second, If I took this tiny amount of text, word for
word, out of a huge volume of work (4500 methods or so) and put in in my work
with citations, it would get laughed out of any scholarly or legal venue as
"being accurate and properly cited".
This whole thing is just -so- stupid.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 03:52 AM EDT |
like the names [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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