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Judge Rules API's Can Not Be Copyrighted

Posted by samzenpus on from the listen-to-the-law dept.

Asmodae writes "Judge Alsup in the Oracle vs Google case has finally issued his ruling on the issue of whether or not APIs can be copyrighted. That ruling is resounding no. In some fairly clear language the judge says: 'So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API.'"

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  1. Re:Coming soon to an appeal court near you by DragonWriter · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That's ok, they have plenty of money to appeal where it will probably get overturned by some moron.

    This is impossible. Reversing a trial court decision is not in the legal power of any single moron.