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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I agree, but the wording of that is imprecise...

    Google reimplemented the same API (which should be legal) but "use" sounds like they called Oracle's implementation of the function

    Oracle tried to argue that writing your own virtual machine with the exact same same interface as theirs (even a clean room reimplementatio, or an improved version) was copyright infringement

    If Oracle had won, it would likely have killed things like OpenJDK, WINE, Proton, Rosetta, etc. and would have made licensing around OpenGL/Vulkan very confusing (for a few examples)

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