Re: Question about Cocoa/Gnustep

[Y. J. Chun]

On Apr 23, 2004, at 11:25 PM, Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> There is much precedent in both US and European court decisions which 
> state
> that an API (like Cocoa, Win32, DOS, etc, etc) cannot be copyrighted. 
> --

What about header files? API is mostly defined in header files and it 
is inevitable that header files would look similiar from implementation 
to implementation. Is it possible if, suppose i'm developing my own 
another OpenStep impl., I legally copy apple's header file and modify 
them?

It is certainly illegal if i declare the fact that I copied apple's 
header files but what is the guideline to determine wether it is a copy 
of their product or not?

I was always curious about this. some wine emulator's header files look 
same with MSVC's.

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Y. J. Chun <yjchun@mac.com>