But isn't creating an exact copy of the API our goal, in order to have feature and functional parity?
If I don't match the function signatures, then the world goes to shit. -Nick On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > On 5/1/12 4:54 PM, "Jeffry Houser" <jef...@dot-com-it.com> wrote: > > > It shouldn't violate copyright; because we are writing our own code > > from scratch. Unless Adobe wants to claim copyright on the API which is > > possible. I know I read about a API related lawsuit at one point, but I > > have no idea what the results were. > Again, I'm not a lawyer, but here's my logic: If we were writing actual > code that did something, then I would agree, starting from scratch > shouldn't > be a violation of copyright. But to try to create an exact replica of an > API is to me the equivalent of hearing a song, but not having the sheet > music, re-creating the song exactly. I don't think you can do that in the > music business. > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
