The courts just handed Oracle a surprising win in its years-long lawsuit against Google and Android. And Google, to say the least, is not pleased. Google sent Business Insider this statement:
"We're disappointed by this ruling, which sets a damaging precedent for computer science and software development, and are considering our options."
It's unclear how much money Google could owe Oracle as a result of this new ruling. Oracle had originally been seeking a shocking $ ..
The fee Google winds up paying could be as low as $300,000, or even nothing. That's because the courts still have to rule on Google's final defense: that the copyrighted material it used for Android is ok to use under the Fair Use Doctrine.
To recap: Oracle accused Google of copying some of its Java computer code when it wrote Android. Android itself wasn't the issue. Android is different than Java. But Google wanted developers that work with Java, a popular language .. On Friday, an appellate court just overturned that loss, and said that APIs are subject to copyright.
An API exists to allow two programs to talk to each other. Normally, APIs are freely given away. It's the tool that encourages developers to write apps for a tech company's products.
By saying that APIs are copyrightable, the whole software industry has been put on alert. This ruling could be an epic mistake that leads to a lot of frivolous litigation, James Grimmelmann, a co ..
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