SAN FRANCISCO--Java inventor James Gosling on Wednesday will unveil a new license intended to spark vigorous research into new directions for the programming technology. Sun's new Java Research ...

The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public License (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and ...

The Apache Software Foundation is in a dispute with Sun Microsystems over a license for the Java technology compatibility kit needed for the Apache Harmony project. Harmony is an open source ...

A Google engineer who wrote an e-mail that is now one of the key pieces of evidence in Oracle's patent and copyright infringement lawsuit against Google testified yesterday that he did not mean to ...

Sun Microsystems wanted $30 million to $50 million from Google for a Java license, but Google decided to build its own implementation for Android after negotiations broke down, Google Executive ...

The Apache Software Foundation is in a dispute with Sun Microsystems over a license for the Java technology compatibility kit needed for the Apache Harmony project. Harmony is an open source ...