Justice – APIs are not subject to copyright protection

Posted on May 31, 2012, 21:40.

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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One Comment

  1. Clemens Eisserer says:
    June 1, 2012 at 17:07

    Basically this means the unclear situations of WINE and Mono are also clarified.

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