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by hedora 1102 days ago
In the end, google reimplemented Java, and the supreme court ruled on a very narrow piece of the reimplementation. I think it came down to a former sun/oracle employee at google actually copy pasting code from the original java code base.

I'm reasonably sure they could reimplement CUDA from a copyright / trademark perspective. It's possible that they could be blocked with patents though.
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monocasa 1102 days ago
> think it came down to a former sun/oracle employee at google actually copy pasting code from the original java code base.

IIRC, the verbatim copying of rangeCheck didn't make it to SCOTUS. They really did instead rule on the copyrightability of the "structure, sequence, and organization" of the Java API as a whole.

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