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| Authored by: scav on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 10:01 AM EDT |
They haven't stipulated that they've *copied* the API in the
sense of making a copy from one tangible medium to another
(required for a copyright complaint).
They admit they have *implemented another API* which has a
broad intersection with the structure and names of the Java
API so that developers used to programming in the Java
language don't have to re-learn a too different API in order
to successfully develop in the Java language for Android.
Note that it is not disputed that this is something those
developers are allowed to do (according to both Sun and
Larry Ellison).
It has not been established, least of all by stipulation,
that this imitation for interoperability is not 100% OK.
Nobody has identified the tangible medium wherein the "API"
actually exists on Android handsets in a way that copying it
can even be a thing.
If it's in the Java class files, Google didn't copy it (they
used Harmony's implementation). If it's in the names of the
Java classes, it's already ruled as non-protectable. If it's
in the Java documentation, it's not on any handsets.
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