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Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war

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Re: Not so (It's not even open source)

@MacroRodent: "... the part borrowed under fair use, in relation to the whole. In this case, it was tiny. Taking a whole program, making a few changes, and then declaring it proprietary would be a completely different case."

Yes, and the case will be taken sometime soon. The question now is "How much is too much?"

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