A number of interesting and notable legal developments in open source took place in 2016. These seven legal news stories stood out:
1. Victory for Google on fair use in Java API case
In 2012 the jury in the first Oracle v. Google trial found that Google’s inclusion of Java core library APIs in Android infringed Oracle’s copyright. The district court overturned the verdict, holding that the APIs as such were not copyrightable (either as individual method declarations or their “structure, sequence and organization” [SSO]).
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