Wadler's Blog

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has submitted an amicus brief for the case of Oracle vs. Google, arguing that copyright should apply to code that implements an API, but not to the API itself, which anyone should be free to implement.  The brief details a number of cases where the freedom to implement an API has led to social benefits.  I am pleased to be a signatory of the brief, in the company of luminaries including John Parry Barlow, Jon Bentley, Frederick Brooks, David Dill, Les Earnest, Doug Lea, Martin Odersky, Bruce Schneier, Bjarne Stoustroup, and others.

Labels: Computing, Copyright, Programming Languages