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Re: Oracle Java license question

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Am 28.01.2015 15:51, schrieb Nigel Wade:
> On 27/01/15 23:19, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:15:07 +0100, Sebastian wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to replace (not overload) all methods in a certain class
>>> that have an int in their signature with analogous methods that have a
>>> long, where some of those methods delegate to a private instance of a
>>> nested class. No chance with O-O ways, I guess.
>>>
>> If you use the documentation to write your own version *without looking
>> at the source* you should be fine. Have at it: the Wine people have been
>> doing this for years. MS mightn't like it, but they can't stop it as long
>> as the coder hasn't seen any of their source.
>>
>>
>
> Isn't that pretty much the crux of the Oracle vs. Google case re.
> Android? Oracle claim that the API itself is copyright, and that by
> developing code which provides an alternative implementation of that API
> Google violated the copyright on the API. The Federal Circuit Court of
> Appeals upheld Oracle's claim in 2013.
>
> Go there at your peril. You may get away with it. But than again you may
> not. Can you afford the risk?
>

I think my case woould be a bit different, as 1) the API is small and 2) 
I need a (slightly) different API, not a different implementation. A 
layman at law can only speculate, I gather.

-- Sebastian

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