Oracle v. Google: A High-Stakes Legal Fight for the Software Industry.

The article discusses the U.S. court case Oracle v. Google, which may be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and which concerns the copyright status of software application programming interfaces (APIs). The author argues that the Supreme Court should hear the case and should overturn a ruling by the U....

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 5; pp. 27 - 30
Autor principal: Sprigman, Christopher Jon
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery May2015
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