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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by hcknwscommenter on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:22AM (#16695521)
You said: >My original post was about a situation where the creator of an API didn't believe it to be copyrightable and then made an attempt at protecting it a different way.

What "different way" are we talking about here? IBM asserted their copyright quite forcefully against Eagle and shut them down.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by protomyth on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:11AM (#16696824)
You really need to read ScottBurson's commen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16693994 because you don't seem to understand the difference between an API and source code.

Eagle directly copied the source code of the BIOS, they were not sued for copying the API.

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