Hello all,
relevant recent news is that EU court ruled that APIs and programming
languages are not copyrightable:
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/05/02/229208/eu-court-rules-apis-programming-languages-not-copyrightable
So at least in EU it is totally legal.
Regards,
Žilvinas
On 2012-05-08 11:39, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
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.
US hosters may be disallowed to make such software available.
US users may be disallowed to import and use such software.
I don't think that these consequences really are wanted ;-)
IMO the difference between copying source files and copying contained
declarations should be respected. The EU applies copyright to source
files, but not to the ideas, interfaces etc. behind some software (no
software patents).
DoDi
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