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Oracle and Google Spar Over Whether Programming Languages Can Be Copyrighted
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04-13-2012, 07:16 PM
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Oracle and Google Spar Over Whether Programming Languages Can Be Copyrighted
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pcritter writes "With the Oracle v. Google trial date set for next Monday, the Judge has asked Google and Oracle to take a position on whether a programming language is copyrightable. This presumably relates to whether Google violated copyright by using a variant of the Java language and its APIs in the Android framework. Oracle, who thinks it can be, has used J.R.R. Tolkein's Elvish language as an examples (PDF) of a language that can be copyrighted. Google disagrees (PDF)."
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