In reply to Chip Bennett.

And to go a step further, the decision actually reaffirms that the use declarative API code does not infringe on copyright, under the merger doctrine:
As to the declaring code, the [district] court concluded that "there is only one way to write" it, and thus the "merger doctrine bars anyone from claiming exclusive copyright ownership of that expression." The [district] court further found that the declaring code was not protectable because "names and short phrases cannot be copyrighted." As such, the court determined that "there can be no copyright violation in using the identical declarations."

This decision reaffirms the Galoob v. Nintendo and Computer Associates v. Altai decisions, and strengthens the protections against copyright infringement claims that would otherwise arise from mere use of "APIs".