Answer: probably not, as API-topography is also a part of copyright

Edit: this is wrong

Tiberium 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Didn't the Google - Oracle case about Java APIs in Android https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_.... directly disprove this?

	▲	looperhacks 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In the end, the supreme court case decided that the re-implementation fell under fair use, it did not answer the copyright question.

scosman 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The courts decided that wasn’t true for IBM, Java and many other cases. API typography describes functionality, which isn’t copyrightable (IANAL).

Keyframe 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wasn't Oracle vs Google about all of that?