in part they seem to be claiming copyright on the java api. is that possible?<p>some other examples come to mind: wine's implementation of the windows api, various unices/linux implementing the unix api (but maybe there's some waiver here?), and so on.
Here's the actual complaint: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/39856344/oraclevsgoogle" rel="nofollow">http://www.scribd.com/doc/39856344/oraclevsgoogle</a><p>I don't see too much about the copyright claims in here, though.
Well, I know what language I won't be using for future projects...<p>The creation of this sort of legal uncertainty around a project that was open-source in name if not always in spirit is a concern though.
Why didn't google go with more open technologies? They wrote the fastest javascript interpreter and they couldn't figure out how to use it in their phones for app development. I guess Java has more libraries and whatnot but honestly how many apps make any real use of them.
Dunno....looking at the code examples , particularly PolicyNodeImpl.java looks like they where simply converted straight from the original code. There is simply no way the Google code was not copied/generated from the Sun code.<p>You can view the example here -><p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/40316099/orclgoogcode" rel="nofollow">http://www.scribd.com/doc/40316099/orclgoogcode</a>
is this a response to google's response or just a really old reporting of the case?<p>i thought google already completely trashed their claims in quite harsh words