Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that Google can use elements of Oracle's Java API to build Android. Can you believe that this case has been ongoing for a decade? Yeah, me neither.
Journalists around the web are still
digesting the news, but the initial takeaway is that legally, APIs are different than other computer programs. As Justice Stephen Breyer
wrote, "Much of the copied lines’ value came from developers being invested in the ecosystem, rather than the actual operations of the program."
What does this ultimately mean? ZDNet posits that we won't see an
uptick in copyright troll lawsuits for APIs. What else do you think this means for enterprise software?
Let me know in this SaaSOps Community thread.