[License-discuss] Copyright on APIs

[Pamela Chestek]

On 7/7/19 1:11 PM, Chris DiBona wrote:
>
>>     If I remember correctly, Oracle did find early on one function
>>     implementation that had indeed been copy pasted from OpenJDK to
>>     Android. But this was so minor (and obvious) it is not part of
>>     the issues decided in higher courts.
>>
>     Yes, there was minor copying but it's dropped out of the case.
>
>
> Specifically, there wasn't. We had released a new , improved version
> of a sorting algorithim to teh jcp and to harmony, they then claimed
> that the code was copied from java to android, when if came from Josh
> Bloch at google in the first place. 
Interesting, thanks for the clarification.

Pam

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