RMS on Copyrightability of APIs [LWN.net]

RMS on Copyrightability of APIs

Posted May 1, 2012 21:45 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: RMS on Copyrightability of APIs by zlynx
Parent article: Fair use or "first excuse"? Oracle v. Google goes to the jury (ars technica)

I think I found it.

US Copyright Act section 117 - http://www.bitlaw.com/source/17usc/117.html

"[...]it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:

(1)
that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner[...]"

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