Java APIs Copyrightable, Court Rules in Oracle vs. Google
Found on eWEEK on Saturday, 10 May 2014
A three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on May 9 overturned a 2012 circuit court decision, ruling that Oracle is entitled to copyright protection over application programming interfaces in the Java programming language that are vital components in the open-source Android operating system.
Maybe that's actually a good ruling. Oracle tried to control OpenOffice, and it was forked into LibreOffice, leaving their version pretty much useless. Same for MySQL where the community is switching over to MariaDB instead. Java now seems to be Oracle's next Pyrrhic victory.