Op-ed: Oracle attorney: Google’s court victory might kill the GPL

Posted by BernardSwiss on May 27, 2016 8:50 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Annette Hurst 		Mail this story
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"The developer community may be celebrating today what it perceives as a victory in Oracle v. Google. Google won a verdict that an unauthorized, commercial, competitive, harmful use of software in billions of products is fair use. No copyright expert would have ever predicted such a use would be considered fair. Before celebrating, developers should take a closer look. Not only will creators everywhere suffer from this decision if it remains intact, but the free software movement itself now faces substantial jeopardy."

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Says the lawyer involved in suing Google in the first place. thenixedreport 4 1,687 May 31, 2016 2:02 PM

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