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 ...

The Supreme Court has sided with Google in the long-running Java API copyright case known as Oracle v. Google, finding that Google is legally entitled to use elements of Java APIs in its Android code.

The Supreme Court will hear a copyright case involving Google and Oracle, which have been fighting since 2010 over Oracle’s right to copyright Java APIs used in the Android mobile platform.