Re: WebObjects officially declared dead by Apple

2016-05-26 Thread Ray Kiddy
No. If one wanted to write a clean-room implementation of WebObjects' APIs, that is exactly what the decision in 2014 spoke to. So, for those of us in the US, that decision said we could not implement something which implemented the APIs. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/oracles-java

Re: WebObjects officially declared dead by Apple

2016-05-26 Thread Lon Varscsak
I think a clean-room implementation was probably always defendable, however, no one that I know is doing that. Looking at de-compiled source isn’t “clean”. :P -Lon On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote: > > Well, Google just won their case against Oracle. I am not a lawyer, nor do >

Re: WebObjects officially declared dead by Apple

2016-05-26 Thread Ray Kiddy
Well, Google just won their case against Oracle. I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but I think that this means a clean-room re-implementation is legally doable. Just saying. - ray On 5/3/16 8:19 AM, Hugi Thordarson wrote: Hi all. We probably all know that WO's been practically d