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.

Google’s implementation of the Java API and use of the Java SE code was to create new products, to expand the use and usefulness of Android-based smartphones.

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.

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 ...

Google maintains that Android's 15 million lines of code only contain parts of Java that were freely available in the public domain.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Learn More Google today released security testing tool Firing Range, a Java application that contains a wide range of XSS and a few other web vulnerabilities.

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.