Should instead use an open source variant of Java. – ITavisen.no

Should instead use an open source variant of Java.

Google has decided to get rid of Oracle’s Java API’s.

Open Source
Instead, they will replace with OpenJDK – an open source variant of Java. Google hopes that having a common code base for Java will make it easier for developers

VentureBeat believe that the ongoing trial between the two companies may also be a contributing factor to Google rid of Oracle’s proprietary solution .

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Trial
> The dispute between Google and Oracle began in 2010 when the latter sued the other for infringement of copyright.

Google argued that Java APIs in the lawsuit was essential for software innovation and thus could be covered by copyright protection.

In May 2012 came a jury determined that Oracle’s Java APIs can not be copyrighted, but a federal court reversed the verdict in 2014. The US Supreme Court refused to take the case in 2015, and sent it back to a lower court.

Sources:
Venture Beat,
Engadget,