It will kill GitHub I suspect. Who will trust them if they can pull the plug on open source projects using the dumb "API is copyrightable" claim? I'd say last time they tried to pull that by backing Oracle in that legal case, they already damaged their reputation enough.

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direwolf20 2 hours ago | parent [-]

There's no way. GitHub is already pretty hostile, but the only people who care — like in most hostile platform cases — are the ones who are directly affected.

	▲	shmerl 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's a reputational thing. There is already a trend of exodus from GitHub. This Oracle style garbage will just exacerbate it. Whether they care - who knows, but it can be a reason. But in general - as a developer you surely don't want to host your projects using someone who thinks APIs are copyrightable.