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It's a bit different from that. Any developer who writes a big chunk of the Java API violates their copyright. It's the API as a whole, not one method in it.

It's still insane, in my view...




That's still super grey, the higher courts in this case haven't really been looking at de minimis interpretations in a positive light (overturning a lower court de mininis ruling over the range check code). It just hasn't been a real sticking point yet on the API questions.




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