Google’s decision to copy 37 lines of Java API code is analogous to a two-bit author plagiarizing an entire Harry Potter novel, according to a freshly filed appeal from Oracle over Google’s ...

While you were getting your coffee, Java application development changed–again. In a world driven by rapid change and innovation, it’s ironic that APIs are making a comeback. Like the coding ...

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 ...

If they succeed in claiming you need their permission to use the Java APIs that they pushed as a community standard, software developers and innovation will be the losers. Learning the Java ...

Google trial ruled that the structure of the Java APIs that Oracle was trying to assert can't be copyrighted at all. It's only the code itself—not the "how-to" instructions represented by APIs ...

While its ubiquity, longevity, and presence in many back-office systems might make some engineers think of COBOL, 30 years ...

In a ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court found that Google could legally use elements of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) code when building Android. “Google’s copying ...

Cloud service provider iLand has launched a new API along with new development kits for Python, Java, and Google's Golang. The aim is to give application developers another option when managing ...

The smoking gun as it relates the API copyright issue came in a March 24, 2006 email in which Rubin said he didn't see how Google could open Java without Sun since Sun's owns the intellectual ...

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 ...