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Authored by: celtic_hackr on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 04:09 PM EDT |
It's secondary infringement on Google's part.
I got a book that was released under CC license granting me the right to
redistribute as long as I gave attribution, and I knew that the work was a
"sort of copy" of another work and that that author knew about this
and the license and even made positive comments about "sort of copy",
I would rely on all that information to conclude I wasn't infringing. I'd be
pretty pissed off if the original author then sued me. It should make a
difference, if you make reasonable reliance on certain actions.
I've always felt this shouldn't have even gotten this far, as to me Oracle is
suing the wrong party for this, and should lack standing, or something along
those lines, to sue Google for code written by someone else, and used by
Google.
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