After a two-week trial, a federal jury has decided on Thursday that there is no way that Google's managed Android operating system would not negatively affect Oracle copyrights. This is because the re-distribution of 37 Java API's is under the safeguard of just use. This decision was reached right after 3 days of debate.
However, there were people who questioned the verdict handed down. Some questioned if the Java API's Google use was a just use on the basis of a copyright law. The jury on the decision, though, all replied that approvals in Google's benefit, as reported in Arstechnica.com.
The verdict was the key in ending the trial. The trial started at the initial start of this month. Should Oracle wins, similar jury would have determined the amount of funds for damages that Google should pay out. Just because Google had already scored a victory, the trial is already over.
US District Judge, William Alsup praised the process of the litigation, saying:
"With the thanks of your United States District Court, you are now discharged. I would like to come in the jury room and shake each of your hands individually."
Google declared in a statement that the triumph would benefit the members of the Java programming community and software developers. Meanwhile, Oracle has been objecting the outcome of the trial. It is believed that Oracle made the appeal against the jury decision in the Federal Circuit Appeals Court, as reported in Vox.com. Representatives of the Oracle community argued that the decision made was not made fairly. Oracle's damages claims for the claimed "unlawful" verdict could have the company seeking as much as $9 billion.
Google is a department of Alphabet, Inc., as reported in The Wall Street Journal. The Oracle against Google case was filed in 2010. The main issue for the legal case of Oracle vs. Google mainly stemmed from Google using Java parts without permission of doing so.
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