[sldev] [META] GPL'd APIs (Re: Protocol Documentation)

[Rob Lanphier]

On 10/3/07 3:18 PM, Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> There have been specific cases where independently developed
> components that implemented the same API as a GPLed program have been
> hit with legal action by the FSF, on the grounds that by
> interoperating with an API that was part of a GPLed program they were
> derived works and are thus covered by the GPL... even if there was no
> GPLed code in them. There was no "huge amount of cutting and pasting"
> involved... according to the FSF simply using an API documented in a
> GPLed source makes your code covered by the GPL.

Can you actually document this?

Rob


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