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Subject: [Discuss] can you copyright an API?
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:36:41 -0400
In-reply-to: <20120425032115.GO17729@dragontoe.org>
References: <4F94F484.10308@vl.com> <000101cd2150$c1e2f7f0$45a8e7d0$@nedharvey.com> <4F970AB8.30704@mattgillen.net> <20120424211154.GM17729@dragontoe.org> <4F971D6B.6010102@mattgillen.net> <20120424221555.GN17729@dragontoe.org> <721D7CF7-11DA-4D0D-83CC-E7C69F8B0D76@gmail.com> <20120425032115.GO17729@dragontoe.org>

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.

References:
- [Discuss] can you copyright an API?
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  - From: blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey)
- [Discuss] can you copyright an API?
  - From: me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)
- [Discuss] can you copyright an API?
  - From: invalid at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)
- [Discuss] can you copyright an API?
  - From: me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)
- [Discuss] can you copyright an API?
  - From: invalid at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)
- [Discuss] can you copyright an API?
  - From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
- [Discuss] can you copyright an API?
  - From: invalid at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)

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