On Tue, 8 May 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hi,
I'm following the trial between Oracle vs Google and wondered about
the following... Judge Alsup told the jury to assume API's are
copyrightable - something Alsup still has to determine later during
trial. Now if he does rule that API's are copyrightable, how will this
affect the Lazarus and Free Pascal projects? Both the latter projects
copy Embarcadero's API's verbatim.
Well, not verbatim. There are differences.
Now, if he so judges, that would mean the end of the wine, samba and many
other open or closed source projects.
I suspect that this would be taken to a higher court by the FSF and
other organisations as Redhat, Linux.org.
They would all have to close shop after such a ruling.
In each case, we are not US-based; a ruling by a US judge does not affect us.
At worst it would mean FPC/Lazarus cannot be used in the US.
Michael.
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