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		lvass on April 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [... So does this mean one can already interface with a GPL program/library and ignore it's license? Is this the end of the GPL dual-license business model? https://github.com/JoshCheek/clisp/blob/master/doc/Why-CLISP...

ajayyy on April 5, 2021 [–]

No, only if you write your own implementation. Google rewrote the Java API from scratch* except for using the same method signatures.

* Some small functions were directly copied, but nothing major

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