Oracle's legal battle to break itself off a chunk of the smartphone market by attacking Android looks dead in the water today, after a federal judge who recently finished presiding over the six-week ...

The ongoing legal saga known as the Oracle-Google copyright battle took a huge leap Wednesday when Oracle claimed the last six Android operating systems are "infringing Oracle's copyrights in the Java ...

IBM, Microsoft and other tech companies have filed court documents in support of Google ahead of the Supreme Court of the US hearing over whether copyright applies to software application programming ...

Wondering what the lawyers and programmers are talking about in the highest-profile tech trial in years? Here's a guide to the ties between Android and Java -- and the history leading up to the case.

“Computer programs differ to some extent from many other copyrightable works because computer programs always serve a functional purpose. Because of these differences, fair use has an important role ...

A new ruling in a court of appeals reverses a 2016 ruling that Google doesn’t owe any money to Oracle for the use of Java code in Android. This case has been going on for nearly a decade, and could ...

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The Javadoc documentation for the Package class states: Package objects contain version information about the implementation and specification of a Java package. This versioning information is ...

Watch out Oracle, Pivotal is offering a lighter alternative to the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) stack. The company has collected many of its technologies into a single integrated package, called ...

Many popular applications such as block-building game Minecraft use Java Oracle has released a bumper update package for Java that closes lots of security holes in the software. The update fixes 51 ...