(Do NOT take my word for it, I have no idea about what I am talking about)
(Do NOT take my word for it, I have no idea about what I am talking about)
Google won out over Oracle in the end but it took a long time — from 2012 until 2016; four years of court cases — with some courts finding that API structures were copyrightable and others found that they were not, or that reimplementation was fair use. I guess we now have a precedent thanks to this but it could still be an issue? IANAL so I don’t know.
James Gosling interview, at 57:42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y
"unwilling to help us pays the bills", so nice for the Do No Evil company.
Oracle does pay for their ANSI/ISO SQL certifications.
SQL is an international standard, that one needs to pay for, it isn't available for free.
Oracle already pays for SQL certifications, unlike Google does for Java.