[Lazarus] Embarcadero vs Lazarus/FPC (Oracle vs Google)

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi,

I'm following the trial between Oracle vs Google and wondered about
the following... Judge Alsup told the jury to assume API's are
copyrightable - something Alsup still has to determine later during
trial. Now if he does rule that API's are copyrightable, how will this
affect the Lazarus and Free Pascal projects? Both the latter projects
copy Embarcadero's API's verbatim.

http://www.osnews.com/story/25918/Google_infringed_Java_copyrights_but_we_don_t_know_if_that_s_illegal
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/jury-rules-google-violated-copyright-law-google-moves-for-mistrial.ars


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Regards,
  - Graeme -