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by jonas21 3471 days ago
For a more concrete example, a Google engineer said that they should license Java for Android in an email (without having any sort of legal background on whether it was necessary), and this got dragged into court as evidence in the Oracle API copyright case.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/20/oracle-go...