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 not only argued that APIs can't be copyrighted, Google also argued that its use of Oracle's Java API was legal under copyright's fair use doctrine. The Supreme Court decided to skip over ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news ...

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.

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 ...

Oracle and Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Google were back in court last week, adding yet another chapter to the long running saga of their conflict over Google's use of Java in its Android operating system ...

Oracle first brought the suit against Google over the use of the Java APIs in 2010. A district court ruled in 2012 that APIs cannot be copyrighted. But in 2013, an appeals court reversed that ruling.

Microsoft highlights historical tech innovations, including the Windows Subsystem for Linux, that were enabled in the same way Google used Java APIs. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Jan ...

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 ...

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 ...