Why US Apex Court Ruling In Google Vs Oracle Case Is Good News For Indiaâs Mobile App Developers by Anand Parthasarathy - Apr 9, 2021 12:09 PM Google v/s Oracle Snapshot Judgment establishes that programming tools like APIs are free for all to use and no one agency can claim copyright. This will implicitly free Indian software programmers and Value Added Resellers to create apps for Android phones, without having to pay punishing royalties In a landmark decision on April 5, the US Supreme Court has ruled that Google did not violate the copyright of software giant Oracle when it used, what are known as Application Programming Interfaces or APIs, of the Java programming language in its Android operating system.