From InfoWorld: A jury in San Francisco today cleared Google of copyright infringement in a case brought by Oracle over Google’s use of Java in Android.
The jury of eight women and two men took three days of deliberation to reach its verdict. Oracle was seeking up to $9 billion in damages, making it a huge victory for Google and its legal team.
Oracle's lawyers sat stoney-faced. The reaction from Google's legal team was also muted at first, though they stood smiling and embraced after the jury was led out of the room. But Oracle said it will appeal, so the case will yet drag on.
A previous jury failed to reach an agreement on the fair-use question, and there was a chance this jury might have done the same. In the earlier case, a majority of jurors concluded Google's use of Java was fair, but a unanimous jury decision is required.
At issue was Google’s decision to copy 37 Java application programming interfaces, including thousands of lines of "declaring" code, into its Android operating system.
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