Google versus Oracle case exposes differences within Obama administration

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/h8X3.T7knzqSkYly8D6iHA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2015-05-15T120446Z_1_LYNXMPEB4E0IC_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-BUSINESS.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/google-versus-oracle-case-exposes-differences-within-obama-120446503--finance.html)By Dan Levine and Lawrence Hurley SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has been locked in internal wrangling over what position to take in high profile litigation between two American technology giants, Google and Oracle, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. It faces an end-of-May deadline to decide whether to take sides in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that will have wide implications for the technology industry. --- The case involves how much copyright protection should extend to the Java programing language. Oracle won a federal appeals court ruling last year that allows it to copyright parts of Java, while Google argues it should be free to use Java without paying a licensing fee. Google, which used Java to design its Android smartphone operating system, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.



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