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		__alexs on May 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oracle/Google jury finds Google infringed SSO but ... I thought the case was not even about copyright infringement of code but of the APIs i.e. the function names and arguments? The OpenJDK is GPL'd after all, and well, an argument could be made that Google are infringing by distributing GPLd rangeCheck with the Apache license, Oracle aren't doing that afaik.

ars on May 8, 2012 [–]

There is more than one issue. The big one of the API's, and a smaller issue of a very small amount of outright copying already admitted to by google.

__alexs on May 8, 2012 | [–]

If the Java APIs are copyrightable, which part of the OpenJDK GPL release doesn't provide Google with a GPL copyright license to them then?

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