*Google Prevails as Jury Rebuffs Oracle in Code Copyright Case* By NICK WINGFIELD and QUENTIN HARDY MAY 26, 2016 A jury ruled in favor of Google on Thursday in a long legal dispute with Oracle over software used to power most of the world’s smartphones. Oracle contended that Google used copyrighted material in 11,000 of its 13 million lines of software code in Android, its mobile phone operating system. Oracle asked for $9 billion from Google. Google said it made fair use of that code and owed nothing. The victory for Google cheered other software developers, who operate much the way Google did when it comes to so-called open-source software. Unlike traditional software created by corporations and tightly held, open-source products are released, often with some restrictions, for anyone to use and modify. […] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/technology/google-oracle-copyright-code.ht...