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

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Mon Jun 11 04:42:30 UTC 2012


On 06/09/2012 01:53 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Read caselaw. I'm done.
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.
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