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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 11 2012 @ 11:05 AM EDT |
If he signed neither, and wrote the code under the employ and direction of
Google -- Not as a side project at home -- then Google owns the code... Pay up
Oracle.
Google had agreed not to argue the ownership of the part that they infringed --
However, if Google owns the code, then they're not infringing it, and they
should press the ownership issue.
If the API is found copyrightable, and Google gets it's mistrial then you can
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 11 2012 @ 11:15 AM EDT |
But the rangeCheck function was copied _from_ arrays.java.
Bloch wrote arrays.java while he was at sun.
It's IMO far more interesting to find out if the (probably
independant) rangeCheck functions from CERN or JORAM ¹,
could be used as defense. (I.e. we switched from your
version of rangeCheck to CERN's/JORAM's version right at the
beginning. Coincidentally the code is identical. Or if
this would have any value for a fair-use defense.)
"Q. Why did you use the same rangecheck() function in
Timsort as was in arrays.java?
A. It's good software engineering to reuse an existing
function.
Q. But why use the exact same code?
A. I copied rangecheck() as a temporary measure, assuming
this would be merged into
arrays.java and my version of rangecheck() would go away.
¹ http://groklawstatic.ibiblio.org/comment.php%3f
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