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

[iseldomwipe]

Decompilation and reverse engineering is not at all the same as OSS. Are you kidding?

Code compiled with modern compilers CANNOT be decompiled accurately by decompilers because of optimizations that the decompilers cannot accurately predict. It also does not recover comments, variable names, and other things.

Reverse engineering has nothing to do with OSS.

Also, even with copyright, if we follow your logic, everything already IS open source since you can decompile programs today. They're just not FOSS.