"Instead of creating its
own declaring code—as Apple and Microsoft chose to do—
Google copied verbatim 11,500 lines of Oracle’s declaring
code and arranged that code exactly as Oracle had done."
I didn't read the whole opinion, but what is Google's excuse for this? If there's one way to do it, I don't think copyright should apply. But when there's more than one way, why should copyright not provide some protection? I guess just because it's tiny and contains little expression?
Regardless, it seems like very poor judgement to not do a cleanroom implementation here.
"Instead of creating its own declaring code—as Apple and Microsoft chose to do— Google copied verbatim 11,500 lines of Oracle’s declaring code and arranged that code exactly as Oracle had done."
I didn't read the whole opinion, but what is Google's excuse for this? If there's one way to do it, I don't think copyright should apply. But when there's more than one way, why should copyright not provide some protection? I guess just because it's tiny and contains little expression?
Regardless, it seems like very poor judgement to not do a cleanroom implementation here.