Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Archit3ch 2619 days ago
> Most people would also say it is unethical to copy your competitor's docs down to the examples and randomly generated tokens.

<standard not-a-lawyer disclaimer> Would it be okay if they changed the tokens and kept everything else? Who benefits from Otonomo changing the examples?

Assuming a REST API is a non-enforceable contract for the sake of interoperability, it doesn't make sense for any party agreeing to it to "own" the contract itself, even if they were involved in writing it.