Copyright on an API is an evil idea from Oracle that might win in court and change programming as we know it - ►http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/232901227
Copyright on an API is an evil idea from Oracle that might win in court and change programming as we know it - ►http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/232901227
According to Carlo Piana in a comment on that topic on Google Plus (►https://plus.google.com/u/0/114342998833897604241/posts/N1A53hxuD9J) : In Europe that has been largely denied by SAS v. WPL out today "[...] neither the functionality of a computer program nor the programming language and the format of data files used in a computer program in order to exploit certain of its functions constitute a form of expression of that program and, as such, [they] are not protected by copyright in computer