Re: copyright questions

["Vasiliy Molostov" <molostoff@gmail.com>]

Julian Leyh <julian@vgai.de> писал(а) в своём письме Mon, 13 Aug 2012  
13:27:11 +0400:

> Am Sonntag, 12. August 2012 14:46:29 UTC+2 schrieb Leo Brewin:
> interfaces (API, function headers), data structures, nor functionality.  
> So, if you didn't just copy the algorithms 1:1, your code is a new work  
> and you can decide what license to put it under.

More precisely, public APIs are failed to protect by copyright while still  
copyrightable formally.

You can not claim for protect yourself from infringement on API if you  
have released it to public - this is a correct answer. (otherwise, you can  
ambiguously suppose that any ada specification, which is an interface, is  
not copyrightable - and this is not true)

APIs are not patentable, since does not contain any formula or process  
description, they are writings in a tangible fixed form in nature, instead  
you can issue patent on interface protocol, which describes a process (for  
example - ada task body).

Ada 2012 standard comes with contracts in specifications (with PRE => ...  
etc) and can make them patentable (more patentable than before), since  
specification becomes a formula.


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