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No. Only the text-labelled function libraries are GPLed. ...nt
Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 03:54 PM EDT
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The APIs are already GPLed
Authored by: hconnellan on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 03:57 PM EDT
I'm wondering how something that is not copyrightable can be GPLed.

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The APIs are already GPLed
Authored by: cricketjeff on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 05:00 PM EDT
The GPL is a copyright licence, I very much hope that the judge is going to rule
they can't be copyright and therefore cannot be GPLed.

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API documentation is a derivate of the GPLd source
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 10:08 AM EDT

The API documentation (at least the HTML version of the API documentation) comes from running the javadoc program on the source .java files. The javadoc program recognizes special documentation comments that start "/**" and end "*/". E.g. somewhere there's an InputStream.java file, and almost everything on the HTML page documenting the java.io .InputStream class comes from the documentation comments in that source file. (The exceptions are the list of "Direct Known Subclasses", which javadoc derives from the source .java files of classes that extend java.io.InputStream and the list of methods inherited from java.lang.Object, which comes from an Object.java source file.)

So if InputStream.java and the rest of the source files that go into the implementation of the API are GPLd, then the API documentation is GPLd.

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  • Giants - Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 04:38 AM EDT
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