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| Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 03:27 AM EDT |
That's all it takes.
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: tknarr on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 03:28 AM EDT |
My guess? Oracle's hoping to get Judge Alsup to defer to a jury, leaving BSF
to do their usual brilliant job of baffling the jury into reaching a conclusion
at odds with precedent. It's back-door precedent-setting: instead of getting a
judge to rule that the law says what you want it to say, you get the jury to say
that and convince the judge to not overrule the jury. If you succeed, you get to
hold up that ruling as controlling while the appeals are in progress. Even if
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| Authored by: Balance on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 04:20 AM EDT |
One could also use a simple menu analogy--just a list of foods the restaurant
can prepare. Say it's a deli menu; it will mostly be a list of pretty standard
sandwiches: roast beef, Reuben, tuna, and so on. You pick the one you want,
specify some parameters (withMayo = false, say), and the folks behind the
counter prepare the sandwich and hand it to you. Congratulations, you've just
used the delicatessen API to perform a sandwich-making operation.
Is a list of sandwiches copyrightable?
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