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More truth oozing out ?? or is it gushing now ?! | 270 comments | Create New Account
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More truth oozing out ?? or is it gushing now ?!
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 04:20 AM EDT
Copyright applies to expressions of ideas, not physical things - it's an
intellectual property right. You're going to have trouble holding almost
anything copyrighted in your hand as they're usually not tangible objects.

Take something as simple as a novel. It's not actually the physical book that's
protected by copyright, it's the story. You can hold a novel which is a
production (I think is the word?) of the story, but you can't hold the story
(which is the actual copyrighted thing).

Another example - music. You can't hold a musical composition in your hand (you
can certainly hold a CD containing it, but you could do the same thing with the
source files defining an API), but it's clearly copyrightable. And so on.

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More truth oozing out ?? or is it gushing now ?!
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 10:00 PM EDT
> The API contains the rules to tell a library how to
> do what you want.

This is wrong.

The API tells the client programmer *what* the library does.

It should *never* say anything about *how* it does anything.

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