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Re:Explaining React's license by ktRolster on Saturday August 19, 2017 @11:21AM (#15053873)
APIs are copyrightable. You can see here: http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/x-1.html

There is still a question on fair use. Google won the jury trial, but the appellate court is ruling in a few months, and that could change everything.

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Re:Explaining React's license by gardnr on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:54PM (#15075354)
The link that you provided is from May of 2016. AFAIK, Google won that case and the appeals and there are no ongoing appeals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....

Oracle really has a way of being a big swinging legal turd, I do believe they would try anything they could. It just seems like they wouldn't wait a year to get it going.

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