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and Amazon could talk to Oracle who "borrwed" the S3 API for their cloud storage.
by philjohn 6y ago
and Amazon could talk to Oracle who "borrwed" the S3 API for their cloud storage.
- derekdb 6y agoS3 explicitly changed their license to allow copying the S3 API. I forget the year, ~2010? I was working an S3 at the time and it was a strongly debated decision. Google’s initial launch of their cloud storage copied not just the S3 API, but also the error codes.
- winwhiz 6y agoI think the point is that if this case had gone the other way this kind of open licensing would happen a lot less. Companies would be obliged to enforce API copyright to protect themselves from loss of copyright (share holder value)