Getting this Oracle decision in API copyright overturned is probably the most important thing in software. If it stands then all open source is in peril. Shared APIs are at the heart of OSS and it can't exist with APIs under copyright:https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/case-for-open-innovation/ …
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If APIs are protected under copyright, every OSS project would be vulnerable to frivolous lawsuits by any company that claims their APIs have been ripped off. Closed source APIs are usually published, while source code isn't. So it's much harder to claim their code was stolen.
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Or a less extreme version is simply that we no longer have a progression of different APIs morphing, improving and building off each other. Every API becomes an evolutionary dead end. It'll waste untold amounts of programmer effort and lead to far less innovation.
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