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It won most counts and lost on the API's aren't copyrightable stance. The thing is that even if API's are copyrightable what is the damage if someone does a clean room implementation...

Since Oracle/Sun is effectively giving OpenJDK for free I'd argue the damages are effectively 0 USD so Oracle would win a 0 USD compensation. Since the lower court justice mostly sided with Google I'm guessing compensation won't be much for Oracle.



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