US court issues Google API with Java ruling

April 6, 2021 • Source: computerweekly.com

US court issues Google API with Java ruling US Supreme Court rules that specifying an API function call to enable third-party developers to access functionality should not be copyrighted Share this item with your network: By Published: 06 Apr 2021 11:23 The US Supreme Court has handed Google a massive victory in its decade-long fight with Oracle over Java application programming interfaces (APIs). In a blog post in 2019, Google’s chief legal officer, Kent Ward, wrote: “Standardised software interfaces have driven innovation in software development. They let computer programs interact with each other and let developers easily build technologies for different platforms.” But over the last 10 years, Oracle has contested that the use of Java in Google’s Android operating system for smartphones was a copyright infringement. The case involved the 11,500 lines of declaring code from the Java API used in Android.