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Originally Posted by leebase
I can't write a book with the characters Captain Kirk, Mr Spock who explore the universe in a spaceship named the enterprise. Even if "the story" is my original implementation of the universe defined by Star Trek. Yes, people write fan fiction, but that too is copyright infringement that authors/publishers may ignore or promote or stop as is their choice.
Why anyone would think that you could just write your own implementation of another companies product in such a way that it's customers could switch to your implementation with no change whatsoever....that's copyright infringement.
Google knew this when they came out with Android and simply took a chance rather than sign up for a license. I hope they get hammered.
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I don't think things are so simple when talking about a programming language or API for a library. If you can't copy it at all, then you can't use it to program stuff yourself. Just including the header files within your source code causes copying of copyrighted code. There has to be some kind of copying permitted, which makes things complicated if someone decides to clone the work.