The messages showed Google executives and engineers were concerned that they needed, and didn’t get, a licence for Java. Oracle contended that Google needed a licence to use its Java programming language to develop Android, the operating system in 80% of the world’s mobile devices. “It’s an oldie but goodie.”Witnesses for Google said the company didn’t need a licence for the Java’s APIs to build Android. Jurors in San Francisco federal court on Thursday rejected that argument and concluded Google made fair use of the code under copyright law. Google’s message was that “Oracle shouldn’t ‘own’ programmers simply because they had taken the time to learn Java,” Ochoa said.

Source: Mint May 27, 2016 00:18 UTC