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Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] by mbesto on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:56PM (#26704615)
> especially when you point out the code in question was 0.4% of the entire API.

Honestly, the fact that it's 0.4% is a BS heuristic. What if they spent a year and all they did was refactor the code so that codebase was 1.43 million lines instead of 2.86? Would that mean these lines of code are 2x as powerful?

Lines of code is an indicative heuristic, but not a deterministic one.

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Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] by DaiPlusPlus on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:48PM (#26706184)
I think they took "line" to refer to a Java method signature/prototype, so even if a method signature has each parameter wrapped to its own physical line on-disk, the whole method declaration still counts as "one line".

...at least I hope that's what they did.

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