| > This is just the way licensing works today. I remain unconvinced. > If Oracle wins you are the copyright holder of that code, including the API. I said "what if I'm NOT", as in, "how will this ruin everything for me in the most common case, that of being only a user?" But I am planning a library and it is meant to be free-as-in-sunlight if it ever gets there. I'm not worried, I just find it easier to agree with those who are saying the opposite. They seem to think Oracle winning will be precedent for an incredible amount of control to be exercised by software publishers, especially regarding operating systems... this would basically throw a bucket of sand into the proverbial gearbox, for everyone, down to the last user. Not everyone wants more control. On the flip side, not everyone wants more users just for the sake of proving they made a more useful thing. IIUC Google winning means I have to be mentally prepared for someone to someday take advantage of my work, which is what I wanted from the very beginning. Whether or not that feels "fair" depends entirely on my definition of "fair", not the court's. Anyone who decides to do that will have paid me a compliment, unless of course someone reuses my work to do something specific that I happen to really dislike. But people are very different from me, so that's almost inevitable, and I might not even learn about any of it, and anyway I accept the possibility. |