Re^2: Copyright on languages

As such, they would be more expressions than ideas.

I believe the output of mechanical processes isn't covered by Copyright either.

I don't see an API as a "fact".

An API is the knowledge of what methods are available, how to call them and what they do. How is that not fact?

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Re^3: Copyright on languages by JavaFan (Canon) on May 02, 2012 at 19:29 UTC
An API is the knowledge of what methods are available, how to call them and what they do. How is that not fact? To quote yourself While I recognise that creating a good API is indeed a difficult task If you're creating it, it's not a fact, is it? Unless you want to argue that everything ever created becomes a fact, in which case we can just ditch copyright law, and software licenses right away.	[reply]
Re^4: Copyright on languages by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 02, 2012 at 20:26 UTC
Definitions, phone numbers, addresses and algorithms are all invented, yet are all facts or ideas, and none can be Copyrighted.	[reply]

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