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

[Bruce Perens]

What legal theory would make a user of an API a derivative work if the 
API is not itself copyrightable?

On 06/11/2012 12:37 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> I belive I heard that his holding is that
> Google wrote or commissioned independent code implementations of all
> 37, leaving only the question of whether the designs and names of the
> functions in the reference API packages are covered by copyright.
> He said they weren't -- which does not strike me as very surprising,
> given the uncopyrightabilty of names and the idea/expression dichotomy
> (patent/copyright division).   Other than giving clarification that
> claiming an API is inherently copyrightable isn't going to fly, it
> doesn't seem likely to cast light on other areas of copyright law.
> In particular, it cases none on what suffices to create a new work and
> what is a derivative work.

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