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Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 11:20 AM EDT |
Oracle stipulated it to the court, but not to the world. I think they were
trying to impress the judge with how open they were being to the community. The
judge was not impressed.
Then they tried to tell the judge that they could have enforced their copyright
if they wanted to and they chose not to as a gift to the community.
The judge asked whether the law allowed a language to be copyrighted. It looks
as though a top law university, Harvard, pointed out that it could not, under
the law.
So, Oracle have not opened and freed the language, because they will argue that
the Java Language Specification is full of protectable creative expression. I
can't say, one way or the other, but I do know what Oracle are full of.
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Regards
Ian Al
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