Oracle v. Google

Alex Henrie alexhenrie24 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 21:50:48 CDT 2018


Hello,

As you have probably already heard, last week a US court made the crazy
decision that the name and arguments of a function are both copyrightable
and not protected by fair use, even if duplicating them is necessary for
basic software compatibility:
https://cdn.patentlyo.com/media/2018/03/17-1118.Opinion.3-26-2018.1.pdf

Does anyone know exactly how much this ruling affects Wine? Can we ask the
SFC for a legal opinion?

-Alex



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