[Info-vax] OT: Oracle vs. Google re: Java

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 1:18:37 PM UTC+12, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> The general consensus of the US court system is that API's are
> copyrighted. That was the decision by the appeal court.

No, that was *not* the general consensus of the US court system. It was specifically a decision of the IP-happy CAFC. Which was only handling the appeal because the original case had a patent claim in it (which was thrown out fairly early).

Other appeal courts would very likely have decided differently.