Sanity prevails:
So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API. It does not matter that the declaration or method header lines are identical.
Under the rules of Java, they must be identical to declare a method specifying the same functionality -- even when the implementation is different. When there is only one way to express an idea or function, then everyone is free to do so and no one can monopolize that expression. And, while the Android method and class names could have been different from the names of their counterparts in Java and still have worked, copyright protection never extends to names or short phrases as a matter of law.
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We've had a recent
funding event
and we're starting to
open some jobs.
Including several software jobs.
One that's a software job that's not posted in the software section is for a
Vice President,
Data Services Engineering which is about all of the software not on the robot.
Liquid Robotics is starting to open up some new jobs. One we're really desperate for is a Senior Electrical Engineer. We're looking for someone to drive our next generation ARM processor boards. A key skill is around how to deal with making systems manufacturable - volume in the thousands (not millions, and not one-ofs); low-power and rock solid.