[shakna]

You might want to take a look at some of the pieces of code examined in Google vs Oracle before you decide small and obvious cannot bear copyright in the way that you think it does.

That horrifying back and forth showed that lawyers can consider very small and obvious fragments of code to be absolutely copyrightable. And that it went on for nearly a decade, should tell you that none of this is simple.

[int_19h]

Google v. Oracle did not decide whether such code is copyrightable. The decision says that it doesn't matter because it would be fair use if it were copyrightable.

[reidjs]

Can you give an example? Are they trademarking `for` loops or something?

[jpollock]

https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=791114&p=5747565

"Google also copied the nine-line rangeCheck function in its implementing code"

Comparison between the two, discussed back in 2012:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3940683