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The court decision also will be welcome news to independent software developers, small startups and others who are tinkering with code, said Tiffany Li, a visiting law professor at Boston University.
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Li said, adding that if Oracle had won that could have harmed a lot of developers because it would have been contrary to how the community currently functions.
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