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How are Wine and friends actually legal considering the Oracle v Google thing on Java?

I've always loved it but really do wonder. That was a blasphemous verdict.

Google won that in the end. It went all the way to the Supreme Court.

Oh they did? Well, that’s good news. Something is good in this world.

Won for now. Supreme Court decisions are reversible in time.

>> How are Wine and friends actually legal considering the Oracle v Google thing on Java?

>> I've always loved it but really do wonder. That was a blasphemous verdict.

So you think APIs and interfaces should be copyrightable despite decades of precedent?

If so, Oracle owes IBM a huge amount of damages for using SQL in Oracle database software without a license.