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Did miss something? I thought Oracle was claiming copyright infringement on Java code related to APIs and for patent infringement on specific techniques. Are they seriously claiming that use of the Java language itself is subject to copyright? Or is the judge going off on a tangent?

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Sun long held that the Java standard libraries are inseparable from the language and VM (to prevent subsetting), so perhaps they've confused the judge into asking about languages when the case is really about APIs.

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