> I wonder what would happen if the api had the text "oracle" in the function names?
Wouldn't affect copyright law too much, but Oracle could probably raise a trademark infringement claim too.
Wouldn't affect copyright law too much, but Oracle could probably raise a trademark infringement claim too.
Yup. However, I suspect that Ubuntu gives a pretty permissive trademark license in their distribution.
This isn't a theoretical argument, the Android OS is open source, but the "Android" brand is a protected trademark. If you're a cell phone manufacturer, you can use the Android code freely, but if you want to put an Android sticker on your phone, you have to follow Google's rules.