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| Authored by: bugstomper on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 01:28 PM EDT |
| The Java API Specification is the output of the javadoc program run over
the source code. The source code is supposed to contain comments written in a
certain template format that contains everything that goes into the API
Specification document. You can see the result at
JavaTM 2
Platform Standard Edition 5.0 API Specification
Everything in there is
generated from the package, class, field, and method declarations in the source
files, and the embedded comments that start with /** and have other markers in
them that label the documentation components that javadoc pulls out and
organizes.
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| Authored by: jbb on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 03:03 PM EDT |
1. The evidence cannot support a finding that Android’s
English-language documentation was copied from the Java API
specifications.
Oracle adduced evidence of precisely three examples of
alleged substantial similarity between Google’s and Oracle’s specifications for
the 37 APIs. A “mere scintilla” of evidence is insufficient to support a jury
verdict. See Lakeside-Scott v. Multnomah County, 556 F. 3d 797, 802 (9th Cir.
2005) (quoting Willis v. Marion County Auditor’s Office, 118 F.3d 542, 545 (7th
Cir. 1997)). Oracle’s three examples — out of over 11,000 pages of
specifications (RT 617:2-7 (Reinhold))[6] — cannot support a jury
verdict.
[...] The only evidence in the record relates to these classes;
Oracle did not present evidence on any other classes. Oracle could have, but
didn’t, present evidence of an automated comparison between the Android and Java
documentation as a whole, as it did with the implementing source code. This
absence is telling. It is also grounds to dismiss Oracle’s claim that Android’s
documentation for anything but the CipherInputStream, Cipher, and Pipe classes
infringe Oracle’s specifications for those same classes.
[6] The 11,000 page figure is the length of the
specifications for just the 37 API packages. The specifications for all 166 API
packages of the J2SE 5.0 platform presumably are several-fold longer, and the
size of the J2SE 5.0 platform as a whole is larger still.
The
judge told one of the parties that they were going to lose on "that big fat
manual". After reading Google's motion, I think the judge was saying that to
Oracle. Google's entire motion can be found in the Groklaw article
here.
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