Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Google may face $9 billion in damages over use of Java code in Android

The next, and probably final, chapter in the ongoing Google vs Oracle saga may see the Big G paying close to $9 billion in damages to Oracle, over illigitemate use of Java code in Android. Google has gone too far in its use of Oracle's APIs to develop its ubiquitous mobile OS, and this constitutes a violation of Oracle’s copyrights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Tuesday. The task of determining the exact amount of damages that Google owes Oracle has been delegated to a lower federal court in San Francisco.

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