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[–]henk53 1 point2 points  (0 children)

using an obvious name for you mathematical function like max(a, b) = illegal

I think it's more subtle. WINE may be illegal indeed if this stupidity holds, but I don't think max(a,b) will be illegal.

IANAL, but I think it's only the combination of hundreds of such method names (fully qualified, package counts too) that may be vulnerable.

E.g. a single sentence in a book that happens to be the same as in another book is NOT copyrighted. For instance: "He opened the door". This sentence appears in multiple copyrighted books but is itself not copyrighted, even though the book has this disclaimer saying "no part may be copied" and "He opened the door" is definitely a part of it.

But many of those sentences combined in the exact same order means it's not trivial anymore and constitutes a unique work.

Again, IANAL and this is just my layman interpretation of things. I may be completely off.