When Google was developing Android, it decided to include 11,500 lines of computer code taken from the Java SE API, which Oracle now owns through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-2 decision that Google’s use of Java in Android represents fair use and does not infringe on Oracle patents and copyrights.

Google copied thousands of lines of Java’s API code to implement its Android OS, and Oracle, which owns the code sued. The case is straightforward.

Constructing metaphors for Java’s API let justices interrogate whether the code was a basic tool that Google was using because it was the most efficient option, or whether it was a creative ...

Last year, Google open sourced the code for the robots.txt parser used in its production systems. After seeing the community build tools with it and add their own contributions to the open source ...

A U.S. judge has ruled that the Java application programming interfaces used in Android are not protected by copyright, marking a defeat for Oracle in its high-stakes lawsuit against Google.

In 2019, Google asked the Supreme Court to review Oracle’s long-running lawsuit over whether Android’s usage of Java was fair use. The Supreme Court this morning sided with Google and ...

How to write clean code in Java doesn't follow one specific set of guidelines. Programmers should adopt one Java style guide, minimize class size, provide logical names and reuse existing code to make ...

Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights.