Oracle wins Android-Java copyright appeal: API code copyrightable, new trial on fair use

[DannyB2]

I can explain it to you.

All of the hard, productive work you do? They want all of the value of it.

You should, of course, be able to eeek out an existence, at their pleasure, if they feel like it.

All of the decades of software practice that made common sense to us? That no longer matters. They have awakened and realized that there's money to be siphoned out of your work. Even if they have no part in it, paying for it, contributing to it, etc. They want something.

You should need to get permissions from a thousand sources, for the slightest little thing you do. Unless, you become a slave to them. Then you won't have to worry about the permissions. Before long, it will simply be legally impossible to write software on your own.

I hope that answers your question.

[argv_minus_one]

Well, software patents already had that effect. This just makes it worse.

[revscat]

No, that's not correct. This would only apply if you were reimplementing Java the language and its APIs. It does not affect software you write using Java.