Re:French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL
by juliusdavies on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:16PM
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I think there is a way to make APIs copyrightable:
1.) Hire a bonafide poet (e.g., someone with an MFA degree in Creative Writing).
2.) Have them write Haikus on salary for your company ("work made for hire" under copyright law).
3.) Use the Haikus in your API names.
e.g. for a sqrt() function in Java:
public double sqrt___an_ancient_pond_$_a_frog_jumps_in_$_the_splash_of_water(double number);
Pretty sure the prevalent opinion was that it was going to be the end of the world if the US Supreme Court ruled that APIs were copyrightable in the Oracle v Google case.
Just say'n.