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The semantic meaning of the signatures IS the API. The whole forms the interface. This includes bugs, weird behaviour, shortcomings.

• Spivak 10y ago
  Right! That's why I believe that Google's claim that it was 'just the method signatures' doesn't really hold up since they took not just the statement of the interface, but what each part does and how they interact. The only part Google didn't take was the source describing how to do it.
  • magicalist 10y ago
    > but what each part does and how they interact That's not copyrightable, though. Maybe patentable, but that's a whole other can of worms.
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