Alphabet Inc’s (GOOG,GOOGL) Google has won a software copyright case against Oracle Corporation (ORCL).
Oracle was seeking $9 billion from Google for what it claimed was copyright infringement in lines of code found in Android. The court ruled that this wasn’t the case as the Java code was used with approval from Sun Microsystems, which was bought by Oracle in 2010.
Java is an open-source code language that anyone can use. However, some parts of it could be copyrighted, which is what this case was about. Google argued that it had permission to use the code even without a license and former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz confirmed this, reports The New York Times.
The Java code used by Google in its Android mobile operating system takes up 11,000 lines. This means that it doesn’t even make up 0.1% of the 15 million lines that form the software.
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