Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 12:48 PM EDT |
Good point. Perhaps the most important case of this is the
Runnable interface.
If you can't copy any method headers, you can't make threads
without violating copyright, since they must implement
Runnable (and thus contain public static void run() )
Oh, that's just a lovely argument. Shame it wasn't brought
up. Functionality demands that programmers use the API
headers... and even write implementations of them (in the
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT |
2 words: fair use.
Even if you could copyright APIs, this would obviously be
covered by fair use.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 03:34 PM EDT |
I think that is the idea. They are trying to get the genie back into the bottle
as they see that charging to use Java could be very profitable. Just a small
license fee for every Java program - how much could that bring in?
Tufty
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