On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 9:20 AM Luis Villa <l...@lu.is> wrote:
> I dislike this, but the Federal Circuit would tell you that the APIs are > expressive source code. > In their evil little hearts, the F.C. seems to believe that once you write down an idea that's *your idea*, and novelty etc. are mere formalities. And you own it not just for twenty years, but potentially for centuries. (One of Jefferson's letters, which is older than the United States, will still be in U.S. copyright in 2050. Quel scandale!) Ah well, in other news, all published pre-1923 sound recordings come out of copyright in three more years, which is very good because most of them are orphans anyhow. John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org He made the Legislature meet at one-horse tank-towns out in the alfalfa belt, so that hardly nobody could get there and most of the leaders would stay home and let him go to work and do things as he pleased. --H.L. Mencken's translation of the Declaration of Independence
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