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.
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.
FWIW that case was about whether copying the interface file almost verbatim was fair use, not about the API itself, IIRC.
Right because an API is too abstract for copyright law, it has to literally be copied works.