Oracle v. Google

[Aaryaman Vasishta]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> This worries me as well. Does this also affect black-box reverse
engineered API's which Wine consists of?

Jam
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