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If you're saying the creative value is in the original curation of classes, methods, and interfaces, and that Google could've permissibly rewritten everything with alternative names, that still seems to copy the "soul" of the creative work.

Personally I'm with the perspective that API which has informally become an industry standard should weaken copyright protection.




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