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Comment by iwontberude

2 years ago

Oracle v Google determined this in my mind, the emulator is implementing an API, the API is not protected by copyright law.

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Laaas  2 years ago

FWIW that case was about whether copying the interface file almost verbatim was fair use, not about the API itself, IIRC.

  • iwontberude  2 years ago

    Right because an API is too abstract for copyright law, it has to literally be copied works.

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