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Interesting... Assuming the article is correct in that Google's tool says that no copyrighted information is left, it seems that Google is saying that header f
by CoffeeDregs 16y ago
Interesting... Assuming the article is correct in that Google's tool says that no copyrighted information is left, it seems that Google is saying that header files stripped of all of english/whatever-language text and left with only pure code are not copyright-able because it's just code?
- FlorianMueller 16y agoPretty much. They also threw out a few other elements, but I looked at some of the original header files and the Android equivalents and it was hard to find any difference other than the removal of comments.
- babblefrog 16y agoAlmost. It's non-copyrightable because it is required for interoperability, and is therefore fair-use under US law.
- wnoise 16y agoThe argument is that it's just _interface_, which has to be that way for interoperability, so has no "creative content". Code that is actually expressive code in a header file (inline functions, or non-constant macros) could readily spoil this. I have no idea whether the output headers contains more than structure definitions, constant macros, and forward function declarations.