The entire Java Library , just the Java API, or each of the packages? So now I can copy a book, replace 20% of the chapters with my original expression and I'm safe?

Over the years, the parties have wrestled over not only whether the declaring code and the structure, sequence and organization (SSO) of the Java API packages are entitled to copyright protection ...

Java API packages are broken into “classes” that include specific “methods” — the code for the common functions — and variables and other elements on which the methods operate.

Google LLC, 886 F3d 1179, 1211 (Fed. Cir. 2018). At issue are 37 packages of Java application programming interface (“API”) used in Oracle’s Java 2 Standard Edition (“Java SE”).

Although Java is offered as an open source platform, which means it is supposed to be openly accessible for developers, Oracle had argued this openness did not extend to the API packages.

The API packages contained several ready-to-use Java programs that programmers could use to build certain functions into their own programs. A jury handed down a mixed verdict in May 2012, finding ...

Judge William Alsup then asked Bloch to explain how packages, classes and method apply to Java APIs. Bloch said the API would be like an address, the package the city, the class the street and the ...

The complaint from Oracle (or more formally, Oracle America, Inc.) asserted, among other things, that Google’s use in Android of several dozen Java API packages constitutes copyright infringement.

Google Inc. To “attract Java developers to build apps for Android,” Google copied the declaring code, but wrote its own implementing code for the 37 Java API packages. Id at 1187.

“Google’s use of the Java API packages was not fair,” appeals court rules Oracle wants $8.8 billion, but that’s now for a lower court to determine.

Although Java is offered as an open source platform, which means it is supposed to be openly accessible for developers, Oracle had argued this openness did not extend to the API packages.