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Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL |
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:46:43 +0200 |
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Anthonys Lists <address@hidden> writes:
> On 02/04/2013 22:31, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Anthonys Lists <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Indeed, this legal claim (that using functions creates a derivative
>>> work) is exactly the claim that Oracle tried with Android and Java,
>>> and they came a royal cropper with it.
>> "exactly" in the meaning of "quite the opposite of". Oracle did not try
>> to cover code intended to compile with their Java libraries, but rather
>> tried to prohibit a compatible reimplementation from scratch of the Java
>> code implementing the APIs.
>>
>> So Oracle was trying to prohibit reimplementing the code _behind_ the
>> APIs, whereas we are talking about the implications of the APIs on the
>> code _calling_ them.
>>
> Hmmm... I don't think that's the way they actually put it. That's what
> they were trying to do, true.
>
> But as I understand it, the lawsuit as actually sued said "apis are
> copyright"
That summary does not even make grammatical sense.
> and you would have needed a licence to use the apis - to use Oracle's
> Java.
That wasn't what the lawsuit was about. It was not even what Oracle
claimed the lawsuit to be about. The issue was the reimplementation of
Java classes, not the _use_ of Java classes.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL, (continued)
- Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL, Joseph Rushton Wakeling, 2013/04/02
- Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL, David Kastrup, 2013/04/02
- Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL, Alexander Kobel, 2013/04/02
- Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL, Anthonys Lists, 2013/04/02
- Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL, Anthonys Lists, 2013/04/02
- Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL, David Kastrup, 2013/04/02
Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL, James Harkins, 2013/04/03
Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL, lists, 2013/04/03