Oracle has updated its recently filed Google Java lawsuit to include allegations that the search giant directly copied its code in its implementation of Android. The update, filed on Thursday ...

Google claims that it independently wrote the implementing code and that only three percent of the code was the same between 37 disputed Java API libraries and the corresponding Android libraries.

Google’s implementation of the Java API and use of the Java SE code was to create new products, to expand the use and usefulness of Android-based smartphones.

Google violated Java copyright and violated the terms of the open source GPL to give it all the value of Java's code with none of the responsibly to respect the GPL or alternatively to license ...

Gosling said that Sun was "wronged" by Google and that Oracle is right to sue Google for the way it used Java code in Android.

Google’s chief Java architect: it’s ‘likely’ I copied Sun code found in Android, ‘I’m sorry’ if I did Google’s “Java guru” took the stand in the infringement trial between ...

As the trial over Android's use of the Java programming language entered its second week, the man who oversees Google's mobile operating system took the stand, and under questioning from Oracle ...

Google wanted Android to be accessible to developers familiar with Java. Accordingly, although Google purchased or rewrote from scratch all the code that provides the functionality of Android, it ...

The case centers on the code behind Android. Google built Android on top of a modified version of Java, the programming language developed by Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle) in the ‘90s.