<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Alex Henrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexhenrie24@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexhenrie24@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
As you have probably already heard, last week a US court made the crazy<br>
decision that the name and arguments of a function are both copyrightable<br>
and not protected by fair use, even if duplicating them is necessary for<br>
basic software compatibility:<br>
<a href="https://cdn.patentlyo.com/media/2018/03/17-1118.Opinion.3-26-2018.1.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cdn.patentlyo.com/<wbr>media/2018/03/17-1118.Opinion.<wbr>3-26-2018.1.pdf</a><br>
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Does anyone know exactly how much this ruling affects Wine? Can we ask the<br>
SFC for a legal opinion?<br>
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-Alex<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">This worries me as well. Does this also affect black-box reverse engineered API's which Wine consists of?</span>

<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jam</div></div>