[Discuss] can you copyright an API?

Richard Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 11:36:41 EDT 2012


On 4/24/2012 11:21 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> Yes but the premise of this (sub)thread is that they should have
> started from GPL code, saving the day.

OpenJDK was released a year after Google acquired Android, Inc.  One 
can't say what Google should have done when the option didn't even exist 
at the time.

-- 
Rich P.



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