API & Copyright - Android & Java apropóján

https://www.potomaclaw.com/oracle-v-google-copyrightability-apis/
https://hackaday.com/2018/03/30/oracle-v-google-could-chill-software-de…

"the court found that the 37 Java API packages are copyrightable" "Therefore Google is guilty of copyright infringement for the 37 Java API files." "However, the matter of whether Google has sufficient affirmative defenses, such as fair use, to dismiss the infringement as inapplicable, goes back to the district court jury to determine" "The court also held that the eight decompiled files that Google used were also infringed, as was rangeCheck."

A sokakat megdöbbentett szerzői jog által védett egyik kódrész, a rangeCheck:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex)
 {
 if (fromIndex > toIndex)
   throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" +
     fromIndex + > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");
 if (fromIndex < 0) 
     throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);
 if (toIndex > arrayLen) 
    throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);
}