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Copyright on languages, APIs would be a VERY BAD THING
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 07:00 AM EDT
Hopefully, you (I'm not a USA resident) won't.

I get the impression that Judge A will be the one deciding that.

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Copyright on languages, APIs would be a VERY BAD THING
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 10:04 AM EDT
If APIs are copyrightable I want dibs on the following and all parameter
variants:

int open(char*, int)
int close(int)
int read(int, void*, int)
int write(int, void*, int)

If I need to get it up to 9 lines before copyrighting though, I'll add printf,
scanf, min, max, cmp, len and perhaps a few others.

You have been warned.

-- nyarlathotep

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A court case on language copyright
Authored by: GreenDuck on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 05:27 PM EDT
I realised the other day that there has been a court case on the copyright of languages.

SAS vs WPS

The result was, apart from a few minor points around marketing, that programming languages are not copyright under UK law. Of course the UK system will be quite different to the US system and I don't know how much this decision can be used in the US.

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