Google is asking the US Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court ruling that said Oracle's Java API's were protected by copyright. Google told the justices in a petition [PDF] this week that ...

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 first ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In a ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court found that Google could legally use elements of Oracle’s Java ...

Juge William Alsup ruled that the structure, sequence, and organization of 37 Java APIs were not covered under copyright law, wiping out Oracle’s best hope at damages in its infringement case against ...