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Graham Dawson Silver badge

Re: Creating APIs isn't easy

An api is a phone book: A list of places to which an application can connect in order to communicate.

Phone books require a great deal of effort to compile and maintain.

They are not subject to copyright protection. Neither should be an api.

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