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bruce at perens.com bruce at perens.com
Fri Sep 10 05:31:08 UTC 1999


> Someone who works for the company in question but is not a
> lawyer said simply "the API is copyrighted", but I'm not
> entirely sure what that means.  How can you copyright a
> collection of typedefs and function prototypes?

Is there any published documentation on it? If I can go into a bookstore
and get a book and learn about the API that way, it's going to be very
difficult to enforce a copyright on the API that would prevent its
re-implementation.

	Thanks

	Bruce



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