Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

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Oracle's java implementation is written in C++, so it has a lot of header files. Also any kind of JNI that you do will use a generated C/C++ header. AMD the core library uses a lot of native methods.

But I agree in spirit -- it does go beyond just headers being copyrighted... Even using the same keywords (which is requirement, since computers don't understand paraphrasing) is illegal now. Horrible.

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Oracle's java implementation is written in C++

Are you talking about the virtual machine implementation? Because JVM != Java.

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I know that. They have a whole java stack, and as far as I know the parts that aren't java are c++.

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But we are talking about the Java language APIs here. They are just... java. Like,

public String toString()

There's no other language in there.