Patrick Elliott wrote:
> is what is patented, not the API itself.

Really, it depends what's in the patent.

For example, if you patent aspects of the MP3 data stream format, then any 
API that accepts an MP3 data stream as input or generates it as output would 
not be implementable without licensing the patent.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.

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