Excluding APIs from copyright protection key to development of the Internet. Technology major Oracle’s victory over Google in a recent lawsuit over copyrighting Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) may cause additional problems to software developers and impact how various IT systems interact with each other in the future.
According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst at Greyhound Research, this development will create divisions within the industry as it goes against the principles of code-sharing, which is essential for software development.
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