[License-discuss] Copyright on APIs

[Bruce Perens]

The Oracle case was complicated, and is a series of courts reversing courts
and courts reversing juries, and I'm not sure you can express it so simply
in one sentence.


On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 1:23 PM Pamela Chestek <pamela at chesteklegal.com>
wrote:

> On 7/3/2019 3:09 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > I have no problem with disallowing direct copying… unless there is
> > only one (or an otherwise very small number of) way to express the
> > API so it will naturally come up similar (or even identical).
> So I put you on the Oracle side of the case in Oracle v. Google? That
> was the allegation, direct copying of headers.
>
> Pam
>
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