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The key point in the ruling
Authored by: prhodes on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 05:54 PM EDT
Love this bit:

"Oracle has made much of nine lines of code that crept into both Android
and Java.This circumstance is so innocuous and overblown by Oracle that the
actual facts, as foundherein by the judge, will be set forth below for the
benefit of the court of appeals."

-Phil

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And therefore pretty much applies to all API's
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 05:56 PM EDT
Doesn't this summary basically refute the judge's position that the ruling is
only applicable to the 37 Java API's? I mean reimplementing the actual code
while reuding the API declarations for any API would also be covered by this
statement, would it not?

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The leanings were obvious....
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 05:58 PM EDT
From Alsup's requests for both EU rulings and for the Sony Playstation emulator
rulings...making sure he is on solid ground.

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The key point in the ruling
Authored by: ore on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 03:44 PM EDT
So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code
Should not that really say "is not copied"? If someone independently writes the same code for some routine, without seeing any other code, his own code is an independent creative work and should not be considered a breach of copyright.

---
Oliver Elphick

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