[License-discuss] Copyright on APIs

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Wed Jul 3 21:26:59 UTC 2019


On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:21 PM Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:

>
> Copying of parts of the headers is fine


Not just part, the entire header. I have seen copyrightable art in headers
in the form of multi-line macros, but this is the exception rather than the
rule. Headers define interfaces between programs and are explicitly meant
to be included in another program.
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