Conservancy Joins Mozilla's Amicus Brief in Google v. Oracle

[Deb Nicholson]

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jan/15/googlevoracle/

We are pleased to announce our participation in an amicus brief filed
by Mozilla with the United States Supreme Court. The [amicus brief](htt
ps://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/files/2020/01/20200113120624750_18-956-
Amici-Curiae.pdf) calls on the court to reverse the Federal Circuit's
earlier decision. The earlier decision came down in Oracle's favor and
held Oracle's Java API copyrightable. We Amici (Latin for "friends of
the court") are asking the Supreme Court to find in favor of Google and
take the stand that copyright law should not be expanded to include
API's. Developers rely on the ability to use API's without fear of
retaliation to provide users with interoperability, additional choices,
and modifiable software. Forcing payment agreements in this new area
disproportionately harms smaller projects and projects in the public
interest.

In addition to Conservancy, Mozilla was joined by other charities
including Creative Commons, Open Source Initiative, and Wikimedia
Foundation, as well as a number of small to medium tech companies that
rely on FOSS and the freedom to innovate.

About Conservancy

Conservancy is a resourceful, non-profit organization dedicated to
helping people take control of their computing experience by growing
the software freedom movement, supporting community-driven alternatives
to proprietary software and defending free software with practical
initiatives. Conservancy believes that the future of software should be
for everyone.




-- 
Deb Nicholson <deb at sfconservancy.org>
Software Freedom Conservancy