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Re: Legal issue with classes within Cocoa but not in OPENSTEP ?
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Jeff Teunissen |
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Re: Legal issue with classes within Cocoa but not in OPENSTEP ? |
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Sun, 06 Apr 2003 13:14:33 -0400 |
Gregory Casamento wrote:
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> APIs, in general, cannot be copyrighted. For example, I could start
> working on a clone of the Windows API tomorrow and MS couldn't do a
> thing about it (see the Wine project for an example of this). The same
> goes for Apple's Cocoa API. The code which *implements* those APIs can
> be copyrighted, though. Apple's specific implementation of Cocoa is
> copyrighted by Apple, of course.
Patents could allow MS or Apple to squash API competition. NSToolbar is
probably safe, but NSDrawer may not be (and sheets are right out -- they
are patented for sure).
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