Another shoutout to learning Java via "Java in a Nutshell"
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Replying to @sarahjeong
I'm still trying to sort out the APIs are copyrightable thing. Is Java in a Nutshell violating just by documenting APIs? cc
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there's really just no way. Is AMD illegal? Was MS illegal when it cloned Netscape? DR-DOS?
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Replying to @wycats @knowtheory and
this is not our first rodeo. It's not like decades have gone by without anyone checking.
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Those cases were 9th circuit, right? O v. G ended up in Federal Circuit for procedural reasons
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yeah -- but it's not like one case -- courts have assumed interop layer was not-copyrightable for years
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Replying to @wycats @sarahjeong and
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/JlLawInfoSci/2003/2.html#Heading79 … Sun was a member of ACIS at the time
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Replying to @wycats @sarahjeong and
https://books.google.com/books?id=LFlGbaS8VjYC&pg=PA312&lpg=PA312&dq=American+Committee+for+Interoperable+Systems&source=bl&ots=Tq4lVpFxuc&sig=uVTAfLboSdQER1L_gybtnm9L6gA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiT7O3yodjMAhVE0GMKHYD-AWc4ChDoAQggMAE#v=onepage&q=American%20Committee%20for%20Interoperable%20Systems&f=false … "other US firms, such as Sun Microsystems ... deny protection to internal interfaces"
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From http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/JlLawInfoSci/2003/2.html#Heading79 … it's clear that nobody thought interfaces were copyrightable, just incidentals
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