News Google Wins—Java APIs Are a Fair Use, High Court Rules The Supreme Court justices rule 6-2 that Google used only the amount of Oracle code necessary to transform Java into "a highly ...

Google countered that the Java language has always been "free and open" to use—and that included re-implementing Java APIs. Sun and its CEO Jonathan Schwartz accepted Android as a legitimate, if ...

The Supreme Court has sided with Google in the long-running Java API copyright case known as Oracle v. Google, finding that Google is legally entitled to use elements of Java APIs in its Android code.

As Google explains in its request to the Supreme Court, in 2005 it needed to "replicate the syntax and structure of the Java API declaration exactly" so that developers could use familiar commands ...

Oracle sued Google in 2010, claiming that the use of Java in Android violated several Java patents, as well as copyrighted material related to the Java platform. Oracle acquired Java when it ...

The 37 Java APIs at the center of the Oracle v. Google patent infringement lawsuit are not subject to copyright. So ruled Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court of Northern California. Oracle ...