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Google returns to court to protect the future of programming
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Eighteen months ago, Google has won a landslide victory to Oracle in the trial on the use of Java code in the operating system Android. However, on Wednesday, December 4th to the company Google вызвали US Court of Appeals to testify about the appeal of Oracle. This means that the process can be resumed, and the previous decision can cancel.
If someone forgot, in August 2010, following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems (Developer Java), Oracle sued Google, accusing it of violating various rights and patents for Java in the development of the operating system Android. The main charge was illegal cloning 37 API to create their own version of Java-platform. After a lengthy examination of the case the judge programmer ruled that Google did not infringe on the copyright for Oracle API because of the lack of these same rights. After learning the Java programming language and writing several programs the judge decided that the API is not subject to copyright, because they can be compared with the "method of organizing books in the library: you can protect copyright content of books, but not the way their organizations».
Oracle does not want to accept the fact that it deprives the copyright on the Java API. In February 2013 the company filed an appeal, accompanied by her argument that cloning API by Google - it's how to copy the chapter titles and captions from the book "Harry Potter", to paraphrase the text and give the result for the original work. Some independent experts on Copyright and Related Rights agree , Oracle's strategy could work. < br />
Oracle requires from Google about a billion dollars in damages. But the point here is not about the money. If the original decision of the judge Alsupa revision, it can lead to major changes in the entire software industry. Many projects are based on the free API, cloned from other systems for compatibility and simplifying training. For example, Cisco CloudStack cloud service APIs clones Amazon Web Services API, and this is not the only example, this happens all the time.
On the other hand, if the appellate court decides in favor of Oracle, there can already appeal of Google, raising the matter to the level of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Source: habrahabr.ru/post/205072/
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