Everything you need to know about the Oracle lawsuit against Google

A federal appeals court delivered a huge legal blow to Google on Tuesday, but developers are the ones who could end up paying the price.

Google and Oracle have been fighting a war in court since 2012 about whether Google stole Oracle’s intellectual property when it adopted Java naming protocols for Android app developers. And after much back and forth, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in Oracle’s favor.

The case, however, is more than a battle of technology titans. The most recent ruling overturns decades of precedent about the spirit of innovation that up to this point has governed computer science: an environment in which developers build upon and improve others’ work, and write compatible programs designed to adapt to multiple ecosystems and the latest technology. In short, developers could be afraid to innovate because of a ruling by a judge in a court that doesn’t usually rule on consumer technology copyright law. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Everything you need to know about the Oracle lawsuit against Google