<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 1:05 PM Richard Fontana <<a href="mailto:rfontana@redhat.com">rfontana@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I believe one could reasonably argue that a reimplementation of an API<br>
(necessarily copying the supposed expressive elements of the API) does<br>
not fit this definition (even if it would fit the folk notion of<br>
derivative work that the free software/open source community largely<br>
seems to subscribe to).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Quick clarification:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Did you mean that "one could reasonably argue that a reimplementation... <b>fits</b> this definition" but that the folk notion <b>rejects</b> it? Or did you mean that a reimplementation <b>does not fit</b> this definition" (as you wrote it) but that the folk notion <b>accepts</b> that a reimplementation is a derivative work?</div><div><br></div></div></div>