Wait, why? Won't that outcome turn FOSS into a legal quagmire?
As now everyone will rush to copyright "common" API signatures, and lawsuit troll anyone found in violation of the copyright?
"I see your FOSS uses `parse(string)`. We own the copyright on that API, please buy a license or we'll sue."
So then every API would become i.e. `umvi_parse(string)` to avoid paying. I'm sure all sorts of auto-prefixer tools would pop up to help automate this, but still...
As now everyone will rush to copyright "common" API signatures, and lawsuit troll anyone found in violation of the copyright?
"I see your FOSS uses `parse(string)`. We own the copyright on that API, please buy a license or we'll sue."
So then every API would become i.e. `umvi_parse(string)` to avoid paying. I'm sure all sorts of auto-prefixer tools would pop up to help automate this, but still...