[License-discuss] Copyright on APIs

[Bruce Perens]

Just like SCO. They claimed that their BPF software had been copied. Common
IPR mistake number one! Carefully save all of the metadata
_with_the_software_, not with your legal file cabinet which will go in a
different direction from the software when your company is acquired or
spins off a division. BPF of course stands for Berkeley packet filter.

I have had customers who messed up so badly at saving the metadata after a
few spin offs and mergers that they became unable to prove that they owned
their main product. They literally did not know which pieces belonged to
them, and which to other companies.

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019, 10:30 Pamela Chestek <pamela at chesteklegal.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>
> Pamela S. Chestek
> Chestek Legal
> PO Box 2492
> Raleigh, NC 27602
> +1 919-800-8033
> pamela at chesteklegal.com
> www.chesteklegal.com
> _______________________________________________
> License-discuss mailing list
> License-discuss at lists.opensource.org
>
> http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/attachments/20190708/1c81e654/attachment.html>