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.

The US Supreme Court has sided with Google in the search company's long-running legal fight with Oracle, declaring Android could use APIs from the Oracle-owned Java.

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 ...

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 ...

Google wrote new code to execute Java programs according to the exact specifications of Sun's official Java software (Oracle subsequently acquired Sun).

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 ...

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 ...

Both groups argued that Google should be liable for copying code from the Java language for the Android operating system.