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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by hcknwscommenter on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:31AM (#16695578)
>not only could Bleem ship a PS1 emulator with reverse engineered APIs of the kernel

Not all types of reverse engineering is considered copying. See IBM PC BIOS cases.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:25AM (#16698389)
There weren't "IBM PC cases". All of that work was based on Apple v. Franklin, a 9th circuit case that held that APIs aren't protected by copyright.
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