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Re:Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf] by cheald on Saturday May 10, 2014 @03:26AM (#7724753)
Good for the gpl does not mean good for open source. This decision immediately and directly harms software development as an industry, because it means that api interoperability now puts you on the hook for infringement.

The gpl exists to promote the creation of open source software, not to keep people from using open source. Just because this makes it more enforceable in no way makes this good for open source.

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