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mooph

-7 karma · joined September 23, 2013

I like vim and javascript.
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mooph··on Secret Splitting Service in English
Hello. I've registered domain for my very old crypto-service. Feel free to use it in difficult situations.
mooph··on WDPT.EU = Web Designer Productivity Tool
RTFM! Use devices with keyboard!
mooph··on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
The term "code" also on my opinion doesn't have only one meaning. You can for example see the HTML code in your browser if you use "view source code" functionality of your browser. So authors of browsers consider HTML the code. I've always thought about code as about some text that's machine processable (parsed, interpreted, compiled...). This means I've also seen API as a code.
mooph··on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
I've looked the meaning of word "interface" out. I used slovnik.cz (translator). Interface is translated as point of contact, connection, relationship, coordination, correspondence. In some czech phrases it's translated as bus (in USB) or as interface (GUI) or as interface if we speak about point used to connect peripherals to computer. In one of meanings it is close to the meaning of word "edge". I wouldn't be surprised if translation created disorder in law...
mooph··on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
OK, for some time I've lived in one file projects (PHP) where I've defined interface and in the same file implemented the code itself, so I've seen too little difference... Maybe in other projects the difference is sharper.

Is MOOPH module copyright protected?

mooph··on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
I've always understood API as "Application" (meaning application, program, something similar to script) "Programming" (creating code, writing) "Interface" (abstract definition of meaning of variables and functions, preferably with some code that makes those meanings "live", something real, "behind" those variable and function names). Maybe I'm wrong.

However code is code, be it a library, module, framework, API, program or anything else...

mooph··on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
My software works would not be complete and there's also non-criminal usage of load creating websites, for example testing...
mooph··on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
I've created MOOPH module in JavaScript. Purpose of this module is to make it easy to code a pseudomultithreaded application (so it can be seen as API). This module can be used to create various creative content (games, editors, whatever...). However one of possible pseudothreads may include quickly content from external sites to DOM - making a DOS. If multiple users access such project, it could make a DDOS. I hope this module is copyright protected. I hope anyone who wants to use (publish on their site) this module must ask me (I am author) if I allow use of this module anywhere else than on my domains (where I've uploaded and publish my code, applying copyright).

I don't think it's a good idea to turn off copyright protection of APIs, moving all of them to public domain. Some of them may be "public bad" instead of "public good" if they don't get managed using license agreements.

mooph··on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
APIs that simplify DDOS attacks from sites with JavaScript should not be copyrighted?
mooph··on MOOPH = Module for Object Oriented Pseudomultithreaded Hypertext
What do you think about that?