June 7, 2004—Contrary to published reports, Sun Microsystems has not made a decision as to whether or not to release its Java platform under an open source software license, company executives ...

More info. In a decision sure to discourage advocates of open-source and freely licensed software, a three-judge Federal Circuit panel recognized that certain parts of the Java programming ...

Since many coders were already familiar with the quirks of Java’s API, the decision gave them a head start in writing programs for Android — but from the beginning, Oracle saw that privilege ...