In 2006 email thread, Rubin said that Sun owned the intellectual property and brand for Java and that the Java.lang APIs were copyrighted. Over the next several years his thinking changed.

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 ...

Jonathan Schwartz testifies that Java APIs were not considered proprietary or protected by Sun, as long as Google didn't use the Java name, countering Oracle's claims that Google infringed on its ...

Java 24 adds several new features to the language, such as the availability of the Stream Gatherers API and Class-File API, ...

Oracle said the Java APIs were like a beautiful painting. Google said they were more like a file cabinet. And in the end, Judge William Alsup came closest to agreeing with Google, comparing an API ...

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 ...

Telephony manager, which is part of the Android application framework, provides a telephony API to user applications. It consists of the android.telephony and android.telephony.gsm Java packages. This ...

Oracle calls dibs on the Java APIs, even if Java itself is open. If the court agrees, it'll be bad news for developers everywhere.

It's not unusual for database developers who move from Microsoft-based .NET platforms into the world of Java development to wonder, 'What's the difference between ODBC and JDBC?' It's a good question.

Attorneys for Oracle and Google presented their closing arguments today in a lawsuit over Google’s use of Java APIs owned by Oracle in Android. Oracle accused Google of stealing a collection of ...