May have a broad impact over developers who ...

May have a broad impact over developers who are using Java and related APIs. May also change the delineation of the copyright.

The case now is sent back to the district court to decide how much the infringement was.

Quote:”The ap­peals court rul­ing, if it stands, could have a broad im­pact on the soft­ware in­dus­try by lim­it­ing the “fair-use” de­fense in copy­right cases. That could make it more costly and tech­ni­cally com­plex for de­vel­op­ers to use Java and other copy­righted soft­ware to cre­ate new prod­ucts, le­gal and in­dus­try ex­perts said.”

https://www.wsj.com/…/oracle-wins-court-ruling-against-goog…

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