Even though it may be Christmas soon, attorneys working in house might still be drafting agreements for new business strategies. There seems to be a trend on licensing application programming interface (API) by web development or software development companies.
Attorneys working in house at companies in web development or software development may be asked to draft a license for API services. These services may include map, search, and marketplace offerings.
What does API mean? From the Wikipedia, API means source code interface that a computer system or program library provides in order to support requests for services to be made of it by a computer program.
In other words, API is a set of tools for building software applications. API makes it easier to develop a program for a programmer who puts the routines, protocols together. For the user, the API may guarantee that all programs using a common API will have similar interfaces.
On the sites of Google, Yahoo!, eBay, there are terms of use for API that might provide examples to the attorney working on a API license agreement.
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