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Authored by: Ian Al on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 01:20 PM EDT |
You might have covered the other blueprint issue. Blueprints are instructions on
how to make stuff. APIs are not.
I am with you in your blueprint analogy. Google's living-room and downstairs loo
are identical in dimensions, fixtures and fittings to Oracle's. It does not
infringe on Oracle's blueprint copyright, at all.
The truth is that the judge does not care about the specification. As he says,
that is an optional something that can be produced with javadoc as an aid to
programmers.
There is no analogy to the SSO in the API documentation buried in the API
compilable code. That is what the judge has asked to be considered. There is no
'document' analogy because the SSO is a concept, an idea, something that comes
to a programmers mind when looking at all the elements brought together using
javadoc. It is an idea that is not even fixed as creative expression in a
medium.
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Regards
Ian Al
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