Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL

[Anthonys Lists]

On 02/04/2013 22:31, David Kastrup wrote:
> Anthonys Lists <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Indeed, this legal claim (that using functions creates a derivative
> > work) is exactly the claim that Oracle tried with Android and Java,
> > and they came a royal cropper with it.
> "exactly" in the meaning of "quite the opposite of".  Oracle did not try
> to cover code intended to compile with their Java libraries, but rather
> tried to prohibit a compatible reimplementation from scratch of the Java
> code implementing the APIs.
>
> So Oracle was trying to prohibit reimplementing the code _behind_ the
> APIs, whereas we are talking about the implications of the APIs on the
> code _calling_ them.
Hmmm... I don't think that's the way they actually put it. That's what 
they were trying to do, true.

But as I understand it, the lawsuit as actually sued said "apis are 
copyright" and you would have needed a licence to use the apis - to use 
Oracle's Java.

Cheers,
Wol