But sure there are a lot of companies located in USA that could be affected by this ruling and they often do not do business only in USA. There are foreign companies that would like to do business in USA.
Therefore yes in the end we all in a way should care and try to help each other as much as we can to make nonsense go away and go after common sense. About that GPL remark and EU i am not sure EU courts would not take GPL licence serious but AINAL and will leave up that to (EU) courts to decide in individual cases and express my opinion after the fact. Just like in this Oracle vs. Google ruling where USA court ruled in favour of something that is nonsense.
It was already determined Google did not steal APIs but Oracle just had to make general example out of it and persuaded USA Judges to say and send a message generally speaking API can be copyrighted. This obviously can't affect Android but could introduce troublesome practices from software vendors located in USA in the future. Hopefully this will not escalate all that much and will be quickly forgotten or over-ruled in the future. If not i guess we will just have to deal with this the best we can.
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Re: Europe, Google, Oracle and linux
Date: 2014-05-12 10:24 pm (UTC)Therefore yes in the end we all in a way should care and try to help each other as much as we can to make nonsense go away and go after common sense. About that GPL remark and EU i am not sure EU courts would not take GPL licence serious but AINAL and will leave up that to (EU) courts to decide in individual cases and express my opinion after the fact. Just like in this Oracle vs. Google ruling where USA court ruled in favour of something that is nonsense.
http://www.cnet.com/news/former-sun-ceo-says-googles-android-didnt-need-license-for-java-apis/
It was already determined Google did not steal APIs but Oracle just had to make general example out of it and persuaded USA Judges to say and send a message generally speaking API can be copyrighted. This obviously can't affect Android but could introduce troublesome practices from software vendors located in USA in the future. Hopefully this will not escalate all that much and will be quickly forgotten or over-ruled in the future. If not i guess we will just have to deal with this the best we can.