On Wed, 23 May 2012 22:53:14 +0200, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>
wrote:
Indeed. This part should be cause for mild concern, though:
The jury concluded that Google infringed on 37 copyrighted APIs but it
also
agreed that Google demonstrated that it was led to believe it did not
need
a license for using Java.
There still hasn't been a ruling as a matter of law about the
copyrightability of API's (in the US anyway), so that sword is still
dangling over our heads.
How longer will it take for have a final word?
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