Re: Does GNUstep infringe on Apple's Intellectual Property?

[Christopher Culver]

I'm not sure what you're trying to get prove. In any event, Sun (the OpenStep 
standard was more a Sun thing, NeXT agreed to go along) created the standard 
as an open API, where anyone at all among the public would be free to write 
their own implementation. This was seen as a way to save a great API from 
disappearing, since it was linked to only NeXT's hardware. There were, IIRC, 
several groups that released implementations, and I've never heard of any 
legal trouble with Apple. It's hard for a company to put pressure on people 
for using what they disseminated for free use.

Christopher Culver

On 2003-08-25 06:29:51 +0300 John Anderson <janderson3272@wideopenwest.com> 
wrote:

> Here is a better analogy.
>
> Copyright law clearly protects songs.  The copyright holder is protected 
> against any coding scheme: analog records & tapes, digital CDs and any 
> compressed format: MP3, AAC ...
>
> Therefore, copyright law covers the interface, not just the implementation of 
> OpenStep / Cocoa.

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