<div dir="ltr"><div>Yeh, it's tres crazy. The first judge (the esteemed William Alsup) actually learned to program in Java ( <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/05/judge-alsup-codes.html">http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/05/judge-alsup-codes.html</a> ) so he could understand the issues, then wound up ruling that APIs were NOT copyrightable. Alas, the court on appeal was not so thorough.<br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Michael Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us" target="_blank">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>For fucks sake. I haven't even the words. </div><div><br></div><div>If I could get sued for wiring code that does nothing more than links to another library, I don't see any reasonable not rational choice but to find something else to do!</div><div><br></div><div>How can they not see that it is exactly the same as the interface of keyboard to user, or steering wheel to driver? The steering wheel is an universally accepted "operational interface" to a vehicle. If an API can be copyrighted, which is nothing more than a descriptor of what's behind it, then it should be perfectly fair to abuse copyright as patent on the steering wheel.</div><div><br></div><div>What a mindfuck. </div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On May 28, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Charles Shapiro <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>You probably don't want to read it if you're already mad about something else..<br><br><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/16550931121/obama-administration-files-totally-clueless-argument-concerning-software-copyrights-supreme-court-case.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/16550931121/obama-administration-files-totally-clueless-argument-concerning-software-copyrights-supreme-court-case.shtml</a><br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div>
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