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Google's statement is rubbish

Authored by: pem on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 06:04 PM EDT

s/automatic criminal act/automatic civil tort/

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Depends on point of view.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 06:31 PM EDT

Google's statement is rubbish

Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 06:32 PM EDT

There is one way for an honest creator of API's to prevent future misuse, either
specifically dedicate the API to the public domain or issue it under a
permissive license like Creative Commons.

Sun's elaborate licensing scheme had one purpose, preventing Microsoft from
embracing extending and extinguishing Java. That was successful because
Microsoft took a license. Tying the trademarks and patents to the Certification
was Sun's way of preventing subversion. I don't think they were ever worried
about Apache or GNU building an incompatible noname program.

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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.

"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Google's statement is rubbish - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 02:54 AM EDT
- prevent further misuse? - Authored by: Wol on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 05:23 AM EDT
Sun Was Afraid of Apache's License!!!! - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 03:53 AM EDT
Licenses can not reach out and force people to agree with them. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 02:11 PM EDT
- Licenses can not reach out and force people to agree with them. - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 10:27 PM EDT

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