After more than a decade, the case Oracle vs. Google It seems that today it comes to an end with the sentence of one of the most important copyright lawsuits of the century in which it was caused by the use of Java on Android.
The court of the Supreme Court of the United States has decided by majority (6 – 2) ** to agree with Google *, avoiding the company having to compensate with more than $ 9.3 billion to Oracle.
The origin of this long legal battle that began in 2010 has to do with the structure, sequence and organization of 37 Java APIs present in Android, in which Oracle defended that its source code was protected by copyright.
In 2016 the court already agreed with Google, claiming the same as in this second trial, that Java implementation on Android is “fair use”. That same year, Google updated the Android API to use OpenJDK, the free version of Java in order to stop having possible legal problems with the new versions of Android and prevent the compensation from continuing to grow.
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The case was reopened in 2018 when the Federal Circuit Court of Appeal accepted Oracle’s appeal, and now in 2021 the new sentence has been made public, citing the following in the conclusion:
The court verifies what Google has been arguing for years, that In order to create the Android API, he had no choice but to “copy” some Java functions, but that its use was always legitimate even if Oracle did not agree.
With this ruling, as reported by Kent Walker, SVP of Global Affairs at Google, it is a victory for consumers, interoperability and informatics, as the decision gives legal certainty for the next generation of developers whose new products. There will no longer be fear of being sued for inspiration from a few lines of code.
Via | Engadget
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