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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The real issue is that computer code should not be copyrighted. Copyright was never designed for such things. It's just some lawyer came up with a novel legal approach and suckered a technologically incompetent judge to go along with it. Once the precedent was in place, everyone jumped on board. Hey, great, a new way to make money!
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It wasn't novel, computer code is just words and number written down. The law didn't need to treat it any differently to any other collection of words and numbers to decide whether it should be copyrightable or not. Is it original? Is it creative? Is it more than minimal?
But that only protects the exact form that was written down, as with any 'normal' copyright. An independently developed second program that performed the same function would not be covered by the first program's copyright.
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Copyrighting computer code and API's is a bit like copyrighting the sentence "The sun rose in the east".
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Regardless of the complexity of the code, or the innovation it might embody?
A million LOC project is the same as print("Hello world")?
That is saying that War and Peace is the same as "The sun rose in the east".