&gt; is incorrect.<p>Even if it is, calling that &quot;spreading misinformation&quot; is a stretch, as the words &quot;at worst&quot; would make the statement completely true.<p>Also, if the case serves as no precedent whatsoever how could it have an effect? If it does have <i>some</i>, then what I said holds, and if it doesn&#x27;t, then there was no cause for panic to begin with, and my point doubly holds.<p>&gt; There is a whole lot of code that works on Android because those 37 Java packages are API-compatible.<p>In general, no Java library works on Android except by happy coincidence, as Android conforms with none of the several Java standards. Some libraries (that happen to only use the particular subset Google has chosen to implement) may just so happen to work, true, but it is not true that Android is interoperable with Java for any well-accepted definition of &quot;interoperable&quot; or &quot;Java&quot;. Whether or not that&#x27;s enough to make Google&#x27;s implementation fall under fair-use is a separate question, but my point is that even if Google&#x27;s use isn&#x27;t fair use, that has little bearing on other cases where much stronger &quot;drop-in&quot; compatibility was sought.<p>&gt; I&#x27;d suggest defining what exactly you&#x27;re talking about for anyone to discuss it with you.<p>Certainly. I am referring to this: &quot;Copyright protection subsists .. in original works of authorship <i>fixed</i> in any tangible medium of expression&quot;[1]. Explanation here[2]. A specific description of a web API is certainly copyrighted (like any text), but the API it describes is not because it is not fixed. There can be many wildly different texts all describing the same web API. This is not true for library APIs, that are fixed text, just like any other code (that is not sufficient to make them copyrightable, but it is necessary).<p>Programming languages are -- similarly to web APIs but not library APIs -- not fixed.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;17&#x2F;102" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;17&#x2F;102</a><p>[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mateoaboy.com&#x2F;f6&#x2F;blog_files&#x2F;804f4c5940fe299168ea68a195376c06-3.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mateoaboy.com&#x2F;f6&#x2F;blog_files&#x2F;804f4c5940fe299168ea6...</a>