The Federal Court took up the appeal from Alsup case, accepted Oracles arguments that copying headers & using then same variable makes made the Java reimplementation a copyright violation (incompetent losers), sent the question of fair use back to a jury trial, the jury decided yeah it was fair use, the Federal Court ignored the jury and decided to ignore everyone hollering at them that they were being idiots & ruled for Oracle anyways.
Then the Supreme Court ignored the copyrightability aspects & ruled for a Google on some fair use grounds.
I've skimmed the write up from the ever excellent always recommendable Mark Lemley, Interfaces and Interoperability After Google v. Oracle, and really hope I can go a bit deeper into the history & trial at some point. Section 2 The Long Saga of Google v. Oracle starts on page 27 of the inner pdf. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3898154
It's been incredibly disappointing watching courts like the Federal Circuit be so unable to handle even basic technical matters with even an iota of comprehension, having them bungle up things so badly in the face of so much easy to rely on precedent. Being sweet talked by Oracle's lawyers into believing a header file is anything greater than interface definiton is either incompetence, or some really vicious pro-business hellworld shit.
Then the Supreme Court ignored the copyrightability aspects & ruled for a Google on some fair use grounds.
I've skimmed the write up from the ever excellent always recommendable Mark Lemley, Interfaces and Interoperability After Google v. Oracle, and really hope I can go a bit deeper into the history & trial at some point. Section 2 The Long Saga of Google v. Oracle starts on page 27 of the inner pdf. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3898154
It's been incredibly disappointing watching courts like the Federal Circuit be so unable to handle even basic technical matters with even an iota of comprehension, having them bungle up things so badly in the face of so much easy to rely on precedent. Being sweet talked by Oracle's lawyers into believing a header file is anything greater than interface definiton is either incompetence, or some really vicious pro-business hellworld shit.