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> They own neither the API, nor the right to build clients to it, right? That's something that courts have been trying to figure out. The most famous case, of
by pionar 11y ago
> They own neither the API, nor the right to build clients to it, right?
That's something that courts have been trying to figure out. The most famous case, of course, is Oracle v. Google.
I think the biggest thing here was the usage of WhatsApp and the name WhatsAPI.
- BHSPitMonkey 11y agoThat's a very different kind of case. This one refers to creating third-party presences on WhatsApp's messaging platform by talking to their servers remotely and mimicking the official client software in order to gain access. The Oracle case is a matter of Google implementing a Java standard library so that their Google's Java VM could run the same code that runs on Oracle's. Aside from an overloaded meaning of the term "API", the two situations have very little in common.