That’s essentially the claim Oracle is making when it says it owns the copyright ... If it holds true for Java, it will hold true for any programming language, from any source.

In 2012, Oracle claimed that it owned aspects of programming language Java. A post on the Klingon mailing list warned readers not to ask for a complete list of words because the language was ...

Oracle now owns Java. Schmidt said that based on his understanding of Sun's licensing requirements for Java, Google's use of the programming language's tools in Android without a license was ...

Oracle Corporation, which owns Java, offers documentation ... Syntax is the style in which a programming language is written. Java has a syntax common to other popular programming languages ...

In other words, Oracle says it owns the designs of Java's application programming interfaces, or APIs. In 2012, Judge William Alsup ruled against Oracle , and software developers rejoiced.