The ruling goes way beyond even settling the issue of copyright over APIs, but even goes so far as to say that EULAs that restrict the use of APIs are dead in the water and are void in terms of enforceability.
I agree with your assertion that his ruling and opinion are water tight, however I fail to see how his ruling has any effect on the the potential enforceability of an EULA. This case and his ruling dealt entirely with the issue of Copyright, not Google's use of a use of an Oracle application in relation to an EULA. Google is using their own implementation implementation of an API which is published in many forms that do not require agreement to Oracle's EULA.
Clearly,
Since the way we communicate has changed greatly since the arrival of the internet, and there people afraid to embrace that change, we the denizens of the internet are in the wrong.
Seriously, My daughter's arguments for why she shouldn't have to do her homework are more well thought out than Mr. Sherman's.
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