I'd always assumed that was the case anyway; the fact that Google was prepared to risk that this was not the case was never a good guide for the little people anyway. Google can afford to get sued by Oracle.
Oracle have, however, given you permission to use the Java API and release it under (several different) licenses. The problem with Google was that they were in breach of the terms of these licenses and were claiming that they just didn't need one since the API was not copyrightable anyway. Phil <d...@axiom-developer.org> writes: > 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 -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, twitter: phillord NE1 7RU -- 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.
