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.

Judge: Oracle Java API elements not copyrightable, related claims against Google dismissed Juge William Alsup ruled that the structure, sequence, and organization of 37 Java APIs were not covered ...

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 ...

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 ...

Policy Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules Code, structure, sequence, and API organization entitled to copyright protection. David Kravets – May 9, 2014 8:58 AM ...

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 ...

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

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.

I hope having a bit more of an in-depth understanding of how cellular telephony works under the hood of the high-level Java API will help you in this endeavour. Note that this article is based on the ...