At the risk of getting slightly off-topic here, here's a comment on Hacker News from a well-respected commenter on legal issues - he's a lawyer specialising in startup and technology law and his analysis is uniformly excellent. He argues that while the result may be unpalatable, it's by no means the stitch-up by technological ignoramuses that that article makes it sound: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7722674
>From an end-user point of view, I doubt this will ever be a problem. It's not in Oracle's interest to discourage people from using Java, just from implementing it in competing implementations. On 11 May 2014 12:31, <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote: > It appears that the Java API can be copyright protected. > This would mean that you have to get Oracle's permission > and possibly pay a fee to use it. > > > http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/9/5699958/federal-court-overturns-google-v-oracle > > Tim Daly > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
