Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Jan 21, 2004, at 21:27, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > It is not clear to me that this text talks about APIs at all. > > It seems to be about the *internal* structure of a database, which - > > in my opinion at least - has very little to do with an *interface*. > It talks about "SQL Data Structures." It finds that those are > copyrightable. I'm not sure why that wouldn't apply to, say, C data > structures, as used in an API. "SQL data structures" (it is not clear what exactly is the technical item this ruling speaks about, but nevermind) is a way of getting a job done. C data structures used in an API is a way of communicating to existing code which job you want done. And the quesion, by the way, concerned Lisp APIs. I don't think you can copyright the cons cell. -- Henning Makholm "Monarki, er ikke noget materielt ... Borger!"
