For me the more interesting part is whether API structure is deemed copyrightable at all -
which Alsup reserves for himself. The "automatic tainting of clean room"
IMHO is a poision pill from Sun days which should not be allowed.

But from MS/Sun trial I guess my views are too piratical for US IP law.

We'll see soon enough (and probably an appeal as well)
And I might look up my old sources to see if there isn't a copy-method predating Java,
which has a method signature found again in the Java API. Must be worth a lot.

thomas


>We may find out next week. The jury reached a verdict on all but one issue, where they were deadlocked. The judge sent them home to think about it over the weekend.
>
>>Those mails read to be self-inflicting, but as they were made by non-pro's if the legal game,
>>it is still open.
>>
>>personal opinion:
>>IMHO anybody creating a clean room version of java should be bound to fulfill sun/oracle license terms.
>>then be allowed to show the cofee cup as well.
>>Anybody creating a new language called jaxa or lava should be free to implement part or all of the java API,
>>but also not copy code - some of the method signatures in java were in usage before as well.
>>
>>regards
>>
>>thomas