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dragonwriter on May 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [p...

> I am not aware of any significant proprietary API today that is in widespread use, and is cloned by FOSS.

On the web front, AWS APIs are significant, proprietary, arguably in widespread use, and cloned by FOSS (Eucalyptus).

eurleif on May 9, 2014 [–]

Amazon releases the client side of their API as open source. And none of their server-side code is available at all, so Eucalyptus is obviously not based on that. Seems different.

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