Oracle software engineer claimed to have rights to Java code used by Google, but that’s the American jury in San Francisco disagreed. Oracle will not receive compensation.
Oracle demanded $ 8.8 billion (7.7 billion euros) from Google for the use of the code. But the company behind the popular search engine relied knew the right to quote and claimed to have done nothing wrong.
Trailing case
The case between Oracle and Google has been playing since 2010. In 2010, a jury failed to reach a verdict, which the trial had to be treated again. Oracle said in going appeal.
If Google had lost the case, it would have major implications for the tech industry, as this new interpretation would be given to copyright of computer code.
API
the Java code which Orace claims to own the rights is included in the so-called APIs to communicate with Android apps. Many app makers to copy parts of API codes that work well.
Google has used for 37 APIs Java code and invoked the right to quote. According to lawyer Peter Bicks Oracle is about 11,500 lines of code that are “copied and pasted into Android”.
Permissions
Google claims that Java is a “free and open” programming, which also copying rules should be permitted.
Oracle went against Google after the company Sun Microsystems took over. Sun has developed the Java programming
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