> For decades, software developers have relied, correctly, on the settled view that a work is not derivative under copyright law unless it is "substantially similar" to a preexisting work in both ideas and expression.
To say that anything we might come up with is derivative because it happens to target some other API or system would eliminate almost all ability to create, in the software world especially. What we build stop a thing is our thing.
> For decades, software developers have relied, correctly, on the settled view that a work is not derivative under copyright law unless it is "substantially similar" to a preexisting work in both ideas and expression.
To say that anything we might come up with is derivative because it happens to target some other API or system would eliminate almost all ability to create, in the software world especially. What we build stop a thing is our thing.