[GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

Oracle sued Google, claiming Android infringed Oracle's patents on Java.  
Somehow.  That failed.

So they sued for copyright infringement based on the copying of the API 
declarations.

The computer community had been very scared that APIs could be 
copyrighted, something nobody had expected.

The US Supreme Court decided that this particular case came under "fair 
use". and was no infringement.  This was NOT a general decision about 
APIs.

This is very good news of Free Software.  And consumers.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210405/09243546552/supreme-court-sides-with-google-decade-long-fight-over-api-copyright-googles-copying-java-api-is-fair-use.shtml