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tomatocracy
on Oct 8, 2020
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Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a d...
Naive question: how and why is this different from the various precedents which allowed "clean room" reimplementation of an interface/API?
yk
on Oct 9, 2020
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That is precisely the question, is a clean room reimplementation copyright infringement? And of course, this is Google doing a clean room implementation of the famously litigious Oracle's code, so we get basically laboratory conditions.
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