(IANAL, this is not legal advice.) I wish you, and cwyers, would provide better reasoning as to why this is all FUD before decrying it as such. I'm not seeing

(IANAL, this is not legal advice.) I wish you, and cwyers, would provide better reasoning as to why this is all FUD before decrying it as such. I'm not seeing how "doesn't harm the ecosystem" is a fair-use defense. What logic are you using to arrive at a fair use argument for Linux's copying of Unix APIs that doesn't apply to Google's case? I'll pose the same examples to you as I did in another thread: IIRC (it was a long time ago) Window's APIs closely resemble or are exactly like OS/2's PM APIs. Windows, one might argue, definitely harmed OS/2's "ecosystem", since the latter is virtually extinct in the mind of the public. Is that a violation of copyright? Especially since nobody thought APIs were copyrightable right up until Oracle decided to declare them as such, nobody has put anything regarding them in licenses. Nobody has thought that they even needed a license, much less obtained one, and a lot of effort has been built on top of products that are backwards compatible with things from many decades ago.