The software developers were eagerly waiting for the results of the battle between Google and Oracle as they feared that if Oracle would have attained victory in this battle, it would have uplifted more legal actions like this. However, Oracle says that it will plead against the verdict. The company had debated that enhancing copyright protection to pieces of code called APIs which is abbreviated as “Application programming interfaces” would endanger renovation. The judges in San Francisco concurred that copyright permitted “fair use” of the Java elements because they were only a part of the Android that Google developed for new purpose. “Today’s verdict that Android makes fair use of Java APIs represents a win for the Android ecosystem, for the Java programming community, and for software developers who rely on open and free programming languages to build innovative consumer products,” stated Google spokesperson in a statement. The battle between Google and Oracle began in 2010 and the two companies faced each other in court in May 2012. Oracle’s lawyer Dorian Daley said that despite the results of legal battle, it would carry the matter forward. “We strongly believe that Google developed Android by illegally copying core Java technology to rush into the mobile device market,” he said.
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