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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by jacoblambda on Saturday November 05, 2022 @09:58PM (#33488054)
> Wasn't this the subject of millions of dollars of litigation between Oracle and Google?

That was a very different case. That case was about whether an API/interface was considered copyrightable. The outcome of the case was that the implementation was obviously copyrightable however the interface was not. The background being google creating their own custom implementation of the JVM.

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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by int_19h on Sunday November 06, 2022 @10:00PM (#33500584)
The outcome (SCOTUS decision) did not decide whether the interface was copyrightable or not. It decided that if the interface were copyrightable, it'd be fair use anyway, so there's no need to bother resolving that question.
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