Re: Does GNUstep infringe on Apple's Intellectual Property?

[John Anderson]

Here is a better analogy.

Copyright law clearly protects songs.  The copyright holder is 
protected against any coding scheme: analog records & tapes, digital 
CDs and any compressed format: MP3, AAC ...

Therefore, copyright law covers the interface, not just the 
implementation of OpenStep / Cocoa.


On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 10:34 PM, Tima Vaisburd wrote:

> On Sunday 24 August 2003 17:13, John Anderson wrote:
>
> > I mean, it appears clear to me that GNUstep is a derivative work
> > that must violate Apple's copyrights on OpenStep and Cocoa.
>
> I presume that GNUstep is an independent, from-scratch implementation
> of the OpenStep API that has been published as open API, i.e.
> anybody can write it's own implementation.
>
> Thus, GNUstep is not an Apple derivative work at all
> and violates no Apple copyright whatsoever.
>
> Is this correct?
>
> Tima.
>
>
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