API copyrightability

2014-05-10 Thread Chris Burdess
Hello Classpath hackers, What do you think the recent API copyrightability ruling http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/13-1021.Opinion.5-7-2014.1.PDF means for non-Oracle (non-OpenJDK) Java library implementations like Classpath?

Re: API copyrightability

2014-05-10 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 01:05:09PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: As far as I understand the ruling the higher court just didn't like that the lower court just said the API as a whole wasn't copyrightable. They would have liked the lower court to say that the APIs as published was declared