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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 11:46 AM EDT

You are trying to claim that APIs are "bound by copyright", and trying to "prove" this claim by pointing to the fact that implementations are copyrighted. Unfortunately for you, an API is functional and so not protectable by copyright. Anyone may implement it, given a detailed description of its functionality that does not necessarily involve someone else's source code.

Also an ABI is not a compiled API btw, nor does it directly have much to do with API at the level being discussed here, so I'm not sure why you mentioned it.

That would be because you mentioned having

a pre compiled binary chunk compiled from the source code

and

then you must run them together 'just so', or one or the other will crash (for example if you update your socket library but don't recompile your program)

At which point it is the ABI which is relevant. But anyway, I have wasted enough of my time.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

an API is not functional.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 11:52 AM EDT
- an API is not functional.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 02:33 PM EDT

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