Shmuel Metz wrote: >Google for "look and feel lawsuit". It's illegal to run >z/OS on an unlicensed platform; it is perfectly legal to >implement the z/OS interfaces that you need. How well, >e.g., UNICICS, runs is a separate issue.
Let's leave aside the "edge cases" involving laws in certain sanctioned countries. It isn't actually a settled issue in the United States; it's a very live issue. The upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case, Google v. Oracle America, significantly bears on the U.S. legality of reimplementing somebody else's APIs. See this article for background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Oracle_America IBM filed an amicus brief supporting Google's position. Google won two jury trials, but the U.S. Federal Circuit Court overturned both verdicts. In November, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Google's appeal. The Supreme Court had to postpone the March, 2020, oral arguments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so the case is still pending. - - - - - - - - - - Timothy Sipples I.T. Architect Executive Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions IBM Z & LinuxONE - - - - - - - - - - E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
