"Tony Linde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can writing to an API force you to conform to that product's license? If > that was the case, a Java app running on Windows would be illegal and on > Linux would have to be GPLed.
A number of people have argued that if the only implementation of an API is under the GPL, and if the API is not independently described, nor managed by a standards organization, then writing to that API is, in effect, creating a derived work of the software which implements the API. A number of people have argued the opposite. Nobody would make this argument about the Java API, of course, which is widely described and has several independent implementations. Ian -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
