Legal Opinion
Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 9, 2014No. 2013-1021, 2013-1022PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’MALLEY, Circuit Judge.
This copyright dispute involves 37 packages of computer source code. The parties have often referred to these groups of computer programs, individually or collectively, as “application programming interfaces,” or API packages, but it is their content, not their name, that matters. The predecessor of Oracle America, Inc. (“Oracle”) wrote these and other API packages in the Java programming language, and Oracle licenses them on various terms for others to use. Many software developers use the Java language, as well as Oracle’s API packages, to write applications…
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