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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 07:54 AM EDT |
I admit the GPL is a bit of a red hearing when it comes to the Oracle vs Google
case at hand. However the question that you are replying to is about if someone
open sources something and then gets taken over then can the new owner sue
people over it. In the case at hand the answer should be no for many many
reasons like the ones you mention. This is largely because we are dealing only
with the functional components of the API's here. If we were dealing with the
implementation code instead then I would be quite firmly on Oracle's side on
this one. Remember Sun said they were giving away the language for free but
they never gave away all rights to their implementation code.
If Company A open sources something and then Company C copies the implementation
code without respecting the GPL license it was under. And then Company B buys
Company A followed by a law suit against Company C then this is basically fine.
But anyway as I said largely irrelevant for the case at hand.
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