[ NNSquad ] Federal court overturns Google v. Oracle decision, setting disastrous precedent

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Federal court overturns Google v. Oracle decision, setting disastrous precedent

(Verge): http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/9/5699958/federal-court-overturns-google-v-oracle

     "Today, a federal court ruled that Google must pay Oracle for its use of
      the Java API in Android, setting a broad precedent that already has
      many legal scholars crying foul. If the ruling stands, it will give
      software companies copyright over their APIs, the interfaces that
      programs use to communicate with each other. The new standard is good
      news for Oracle, which holds the rights to Java and its widely used
      API, but potentially disastrous for software developers that want to
      build on top of APIs. If the APIs are no longer free to use, new
      services may be forced to start from scratch, making it astronomically
      more difficult to coordinate between programs."

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