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It's extremely entertaining to see people here arguing that programming and software interfaces should be copyrightable and therefore protected by the GPL. Pre
by hnfong 3y ago
It's extremely entertaining to see people here arguing that programming and software interfaces should be copyrightable and therefore protected by the GPL.
Pretty sure the prevalent opinion was that it was going to be the end of the world if the US Supreme Court ruled that APIs were copyrightable in the Oracle v Google case.
Just say'n.
- juliusdavies 3y agoI think there is a way to make APIs copyrightable: 1.) Hire a bonafide poet (e.g., someone with an MFA degree in Creative Writing). 2.) Have them write Haikus on salary for your company ("work made for hire" under copyright law). 3.) Use the Haikus in your API names. e.g. for a sqrt() function in Java: public double sqrt___an_ancient_pond_$_a_frog_jumps_in_$_the_splash_of_water(double number);