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Originally Posted by eschwartz
HarryT, perhaps you would like to examine the actual, like, case and everything.  As latepaul pointed out, Google was found guilty of copying a single nine-line function. Here are the nine lines: https://majadhondt.wordpress.com/201...ogles-9-lines/
Additionally, Oracle waived heir right to the minimal statutory damages they were eligible for.
The bulk of the case concerned APIs. The infamous concept of "structure, sequence, and organization".
The latest rulings on the Oracle vs. Google case have overturned all reason and a great deal of good precedence (and the pre-appeal verdict against Oracle) -- by declaring that APIs can be copyrighted, and that clean-room implementations violate copyrights on the APIs.
An excellent start to begin researching the case would be the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle...v._Google,_Inc. |
The details of what constituted the copyright infringement do not change the point I was making, which was that this was a copyright infringement case, not, as has been repeatedly and erroneously stated in this thread, a patent infringement issue.