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dunstad
4037 days ago
I don't know if I'm failing to read regexes or failing to see the humor. Can someone explain/kill the joke for me?
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gknoy
4037 days ago
I believe it's basically a suggestion that one replaces each `foo` or `bar` API call with a prefix, e.g. `ggl_foo`, `ggl_bar`. I expect that doing so would get one slapped (literally or figuratively?) by a judge for being a wiseass.
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bch
4037 days ago
The API is just a signature for calling the function -- I was joking that instead of
screen_draw(int x, int y);
what Google could do is:
ggl_screen_draw(int x, int y);
and say "New API -- they've got screen_draw(),
we
have ggl_screen_draw()".
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dragonwriter
4036 days ago
Copyright protects deivative works, not just literal copying, so if copying the API is a violation, so is such a direct transformation.
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