Re: Bug#227159: ocaml: license conflict in Emacs Lisp support?

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>
> On Jan 15, 2004, at 08:08, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>

> >> If the .el source files use copyrightable material from emacs, be it
> >> copyrightable APIs,

> > Since when is an API protected by copyright? And where?

> Finally found it again!

> http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/cyberlaw/
> PosSoftwareVNewCentury(DBstructures)(NDTex2003).htm

It is not clear to me that this text talks about APIs at all.
It seems to be about the *internal* structure of a database, which -
in my opinion at least - has very little to do with an *interface*.

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