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As APIs (at least those the court ruled on) are code, it appears they are licensed along with the rest of the code. Java's APIs would, therefore, be dually lice
by pron 8y ago
As APIs (at least those the court ruled on) are code, it appears they are licensed along with the rest of the code. Java's APIs would, therefore, be dually licensed under either a commercial license or an open-source license (Android originally complied with neither; I believe it now complies with the open-source license).