[License-discuss] Copyright on APIs

[John Cowan]

Headers or their equivalents usually have documentation comments Iwhich are
expressive) nowadays, saying what they is about to be used in evidence
against us^W^W^W^W^W^W^W.

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 5:27 PM Bruce Perens via License-discuss <
license-discuss at lists.opensource.org> wrote:

> 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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