[License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing pages

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Mon Jun 11 05:49:41 UTC 2012


Quoting Bruce Perens (bruce at perens.com):

> I'm glad Rick's done. There is a good chance that you, not Rick, are
> right. Recent case law is that APIs are bright lines between
> separate works and that connections across APIs do not create
> derivative works. And this is regardless of the way software is
> linked. Go read the recent finding in Oracle v. Google, it only
> reinforces that point.

I believe this is entirely consistent with what I said, Bruce.

You even said 'Read caselaw.'  ;->




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