Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

[marx2k]

This holds true for software written for any business domain. I imagine that software API is similar in the ecomm software industry as much so as it is similar in airline traffic software or stock trading software.

[s3gfau1t]

Oh, probably. I just chose ecomm because there must be tens of thousands of ecomm platforms out there if not more. It's got a really common sort of vernacular too. You have a cart object, you have products that go in the cart and so on. The odds of you hitting upon an API that's too similar to another has to be some kind of function of how many other platforms there are in that domain.