Reply to post: Re: Of course, we all know why.

After ten years, the Google vs Oracle API copyright mega-battle finally hit the Supreme Court – and we listened in

jedisnon

Re: Of course, we all know why.

How do you implement a porting tool without implementing the copyrighted API which you are porting from? Your code has to recognise every Java API call and it's parameters - at which point you have already "copied" all the declarations!

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