Reply to post: @Hammy Re: Before people get in to a panic...

US Supremes urged by pretty much everyone in software dev to probe Oracle's 'disastrous' Java API copyright win

Ian Michael Gumby

@Hammy Re: Before people get in to a panic...

Sigh.

The courts are using the evidence of what is being presented to them.

Of the code copied by Google, which Google doesn't deny, a very small percentage of the code was different. (Using your number 11,500 only 170 lines were specific to Google)

The courts ruled that this wasn't transformative but mostly copied.

Suppose I write a song. You take my song and change one sentence.

The melody is the same, most of the lyrics is the same. You would lose the lawsuit because your work was not transformative enough. Its theft.

See, I just explained why the courts ruled against Google without this being about code.

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