Does IP law really care about copying "anything of note"? I'm talking about the copyright infringement side of things, not patents.
I'm trying to imagine what would happen at my place of work if they did an audit and found that I had a bunch of decompiled classes in my source tree ... even if those files are not used or distributed in a real product. On Jan 21, 4:47 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > According to this article, Mueller is a sensationalist liar, and if anything > he found a strong suggestion that Google didn't steal anything of note*. > > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/oops-no-copied-java-code-or-weapon... > > *) This post, and the earlier one from Mueller, is all about the unspecified > "copyrights" claim that was tacked onto the primary patents-based suit that > Oracle has brought against Google. If this zdnet article can be taken as > 'proof' that so far nobody has found any serious copyright infringement, > then the sheer amount of time that has passed is a strong suggestion that > there's no copyright issue here. This doesn't make the suit go away, it's > now down to the list of 8 patents. In my personal opinion, these patents are > ridiculously broad and, if they can be used against google successfully, > they can be used just as well against Opera, Firefox, and Apple (for > Safari). But that's just my opinion. I'm certainly not a lawyer. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
