Last update: 29/04/2021
A look to the Oracle v Google case
On 5 April 2021, the US Supreme Court ruled a new milestone in a 10 years case opposing Oracle and Google. Google, which had taken over Android in 2005 with the ambition to develop a smartphone system, wanted interoperability with Java Standard Edition libraries (at that time developed by Sun, which was purchased by Oracle in 2010). Google copied 37 APIs (library interfaces) making about 11.500 lines of code (about 0.4% of the total Java source code) that were then available under the GNU/GPL licence. In 2010, Oracle initiated an 8 billion US$ suit against Google, arguing patent violation…
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