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APIs don't fall under copyright, but implementations do. This is a good thing, otherwise we couldn't have linux or wine, because they used apis from unix and windows respectively, or open source implementations of anything.
If you look at how another program does something to, you are bound by it's license, but if you only look at what it does you are not.