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Regards (3): have not they have a dependency on the implementation? Oracle/Google was about the interface and the design of the API interface not the implementa

• gpm 5y ago
  They do, it's not an entirely identical situation, I believe it is analogous though. The question I'm addressing in 3 is whether or not the source code becomes a derivative work of the dependency (meaning writing it in the first place would be illegal). The only portion of the dependency that the source code copied was the names of a few functions/modules (part of the API). Copying that part of the API into the work seems very analagous to the Oracle/Google case, except even less was copied and it is even less of a market place competitor (but again, I'm not a lawyer).