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[Discuss] can you copyright an API?



On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 08:13:42PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2012, at 6:15 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure what's left that could possibly prevent the GPL from
> > saving the day.
> 
> Google claims that Dalvik is a clean-room implementation, not GPL.

Yes but the premise of this (sub)thread is that they should have
started from GPL code, saving the day.

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