On 12/16/09 09:40 , Mikko Ohtamaa wrote:
The GPL has had many victories in courts in multiple countries.
AFAIK regarding API there is almost similar precedence which do not
favor "using API makes it GPL" position:
http://www.devspace.com/?p=10
That page is about something completely different. Also note that the
MySQL library is not a pure GPL but has a special exception clause
redefines derived works, so that does not apply here either.
SCO also claimed Linux breaches copyright because it had similar C
header files... didn't work out. It was standard API.
Please get your facts correct. That did not work out because that API
was not owned by SCO.
Wichert.
_______________________________________________
Product-Developers mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
