> And they would have every right (according to current IP case-law) to do so. Actually, the result of the Google v Oracle case was ultimately that what Google

> And they would have every right (according to current IP case-law) to do so. Actually, the result of the Google v Oracle case was ultimately that what Google was doing constitutes fair use - and what MinGW is doing is even more clearly in the fair use zone than what Google was doing. So, current IP case-law is firmly on the side of "copying APIs for interoperability is fair use".