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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by wrs on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:48PM (#16693046)
Sun defended Java with the trademark and the compatibility kit, not copyright on the API. It never occurred to anyone (as it shouldn't now) that there was copyright on the API.

[edit] Jonathan Schwartz: "The strategy was, we agree on these open APIs, then we compete on implementations."

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