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by Spivak 2401 days ago
Ignoring patents for a second you’re absolutely right. Where it gets hazy is if you copied Oracle’s query language because it was easier than designing your own.

To me the intention matters. If you copied it so that you could market that you work with existing software then I think you ought to be fine. If you copied it because designing a query language is hard then probably not.

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But how could the reason be anything other than both of those things at the same time?