On 8-5-2012 9:16, 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. > > http://www.osnews.com/story/25918/Google_infringed_Java_copyrights_but_we_don_t_know_if_that_s_illegal > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/jury-rules-google-violated-copyright-law-google-moves-for-mistrial.ars
On the other hand, apparently EU judges ruled that programming languages are NOT copyrightable... the extract of the ruling seems to indicate (to me) that that specifically includes APIs: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/eu-court-rules-programming-languages-not-copyrightable/76076 I think a lot more projects will have problems if APIs are deemed copyrightable and doubt any sane person would rule that... but we are talking about the legal system... ;) Suppose it's wait and see... -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
