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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by zaroth on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:33PM (#11782602)
This is such a key point and yet also quite confusing. Obviously copyright is not patents. Copyright is about preventing literal copying of someone's creation.

So.., if you implement an API in a different programming language, such that the text and structure is different, and yet the function remains the same... then have you not infringed any copyright?

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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by true_religion on Friday May 27, 2016 @01:50AM (#11784147)
Copyright is about literal reuse of someones functional product, not about reuse of the abstract ideas that make up it.

To me an API, is just a formalization of declaring your intention to implement a particular functionality.

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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by monocasa on Friday May 27, 2016 @03:14PM (#11788220)
That basically used to be true, but this trial was over the "sequence, structure, and organization" of the API.
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