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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It
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Tue May 1 15:18:01 2012
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Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It
http://j.mp/IjJcsp (Dr. Dobbs)
"In a nutshell, if the jury sides with Oracle that the copyrights in
the headers of every file of the Java source base apply specifically
to the syntax of the APIs, then Oracle can extract payment and
penalties from Google for having implemented those APIs without
Oracle's blessing (or, in more specific terms, without a license).
Should this come to pass, numerous products will suddenly find
themselves on an uncertain legal standing in which the previously
benign but now newly empowered copyright holders might assert punitive
copyright claims. Chief among these would be any re-implementation of
an existing language. So, Jython, IronPython, and PyPy for Python;
JRuby, IronRuby, and Rubinius for Ruby; Mono for C# and VB; possibly
C++ for C, GCC for C and C++ and Objective-C; and so forth. And of
course, all the various browsers that use JavaScript might owe
royalties to the acquirers of Netscape's intellectual property."
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