New comment by mmaunder in "Oracle v. Google and the future of software development"

There is a view that WordPress plugins are open source because they inherit the WordPress GPL by using the WP plugin API. This case seems to apply in that the question is whether APIs are copyrightable. In other words, is one able to apply a license to an API that affects code and devs that use that API.

So if Oracle loses, I wonder if that will have the unintended consequence of making WP plugins not inherit the GPL, which currently forces them to be open source. It could have similar effects on other projects.

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