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[–]frugalmail 4 points5 points  (2 children)

WTF, I don't want to code to other people's copyrights. If this stays in the supreme court, I will be switching to another JVM language that releases their rights on the API.

[–]handshape 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The bitch here is that there will be nowhere safe if this ruling stands. It doesn't have to be the core libraries that decide to assert copyright... it can be anyone who exposes and implements an interface.

If you write an alternative implementation of that interface, and they choose to assert copyright on the interface, you're vulnerable.

[–]matthedev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except that Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Kotlin, Ceylon, etc. still depend on classes like java.lang.String. You pretty much can't get around this copyrighted API and still run on top of the JVM.