On: Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour

[zaroth]

This is such a key point and yet also quite confusing. Obviously copyright is not patents. Copyright is about preventing literal copying of someone's creation.

So.., if you implement an API in a different programming language, such that the text and structure is different, and yet the function remains the same... then have you not infringed any copyright?

[true_religion → zaroth]

Copyright is about literal reuse of someones functional product, not about reuse of the abstract ideas that make up it.

To me an API, is just a formalization of declaring your intention to implement a particular functionality.

[monocasa → true_religion]

That basically used to be true, but this trial was over the "sequence, structure, and organization" of the API.