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How do you define a fork? | 133 comments | Create New Account

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How do you define a fork?

Authored by: jvillain on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 02:22 PM EDT

I think your last paragraph is the key one. There isn't enough time for the jury
to learn all the nuances of all the licenses etc. That and all this stuff is
complex enough to have the code and law heads around here arguing in 10
different directions.

When the jury is sitting in the jury room trying to come to a conclusion I think
they are going to be focusing more on the behaviour of the players than the
technical aspects of coding and licensing. No matter how you slice it Oracles
story just smells bad.

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How do you define a fork? - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 03:09 PM EDT

How do you define a fork?

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 10:16 PM EDT

Technically a fork really should start from the same codebase, and then modify it.
Harmony as an independent implementation which has (almost) the same functionality as the original doesn't really count as a fork

Its an independent implementation based on the Java API.

If you argue that the API is copyrightable, then you have to accept that Harmony is a fork.

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