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Re: groff Digest, Vol 225, Issue 5
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Damian McGuckin |
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Re: groff Digest, Vol 225, Issue 5 |
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Wed, 5 Jul 2023 12:16:50 +1000 (AEST) |
On Tue, 4 Jul 2023, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
Some of the symbols in this file are obviously copyright to AT+T
No worry. The US Supreme Court has declared (in Google LLC v Oracle)
that APIs can be freely copied. The fact that some of your defines may
look like a paraphrase of AT&T almost certainly reflects the
exculpatory fact that most reasonable people would likely implement
the API that way regardless of whether they had seen AT&T's source.
Thanks Doug
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