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Oracle wants Google to pay it $9.3 billion for using Java’s APIs in Android

March 29, 2016

Back in December, we told you that with Android N, Google would switch to the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit. That’s because Oracle and Google have already been battling each other since 2010 when Oracle accused Google of using Java’s APIs without permission.

Google’s defense was to claim that APIs can’t be protected by copyrights, and this led to a court victory that was partially reversed in 2014.

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