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> if the official API was GPL Assuming APIs are copyrightable to start with. There is no broad ruling that they aren't (except maybe in EU: http://www.groklaw.
by praptak 14y ago
> if the official API was GPL
Assuming APIs are copyrightable to start with. There is no broad ruling that they aren't (except maybe in EU: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120502083035371 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120502083035371 ) but Oracle tried to claim copyright on APIs and failed.
- jakejake 14y agoAgreed, I should have clarified that I meant hypothetically if the author started out with some example code that was supplied by the API owner under the GPL.
- narcissus 14y agoIsn't the Oracle case more about the definition of an API (what I would consider to be the header files, for example), versus this, which is more of an implementation of an API, though?