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by oezi 1944 days ago
There is a pretty clear line between using an API and using the code behind it.

The line between an API and code describing and documenting that API is quite fine. See Google vs Oracle.

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> See Google vs Oracle

Google v oracle happened in the us. I explicitly qualified with ‘in europe’. That lawsuit would never have flown in the first place. Oracle's position was specifically that they held the copyright of the java stdlib APIs, which copyright was infringed upon by google.

> code describing and documenting that API

I'm not sure what you mean by that, can you clarify?