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 ...

As the second week of the Oracle-Google trial got underway Monday, Andy Rubin, the man behind the Android platform, took his turn on the witness stand. Oracle's lead lawyer, David Boies, quickly got ...

Today, it’s rare to encounter an Android application that never connects to the internet. Whether your app is backing up data to the cloud, authenticating users via “Sign In With Google,” downloading ...

Google has announced a move away from Oracle’s proprietary Java APIs. Beginning with the next version of their mobile operating system (Android N), the new standard will be OpenJDK, an open source ...

Oracle wins big in protracted legal fight over use of Java APIs in Android, as appeals court rejects pro-Google ruling. Seth Rosenblatt Former Senior Writer / News Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt ...

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Software developers can breathe a massive sigh of relief — a jury found today that Google’s implementation of 37 Java APIs in Android qualified as fair use. However, Oracle attorneys have already ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Following a two-week trial, a federal jury concluded Thursday that Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle-owned copyrights because its re-implementation of 37 Java ...

Alphabet CEO and Google co-founder Larry Page defended his company’s development of the Android platform today during an ongoing legal battle with Oracle. Oracle sued Google in 2010, claiming that ...

What if you owned the copyright on the French language? Or Swahili? That’s essentially the claim Oracle is making when it says it owns the copyright to the Java language and its associated APIs. If ...

A federal appeals court on Friday reversed a federal judge’s ruling that Oracle’s Java API’s were not protected by copyright. The debacle started when Google copied certain elements—names, declaration ...